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Metal Trackpad.
Laptop manufacturers are increasingly looking for premium, minimalist designs that combine refined aesthetics, durability and high-performance user interfaces, without compromising product reliability or user experience.
Integrating a precise and responsive trackpad directly into a metal surface remains a major challenge. Conventional solutions often require dedicated components, mechanical buttons, visible cuts or design compromises that affect both durability and visual consistency. Nanomade ultra-sensitive deformation sensors overcome these limitations by enabling invisible force sensing directly through metal surfaces, delivering precise, intentional and reliable interactions in a seamless trackpad design.
The challenge
Integrating a precise and responsive trackpad directly into a metal surface remains a major challenge. Conventional solutions often require dedicated components, mechanical buttons, visible cuts or design compromises that affect both durability and visual consistency. Nanomade ultra-sensitive deformation sensors overcome these limitations by enabling invisible force sensing directly through metal surfaces, delivering precise, intentional and reliable interactions in a seamless trackpad design.
Key benefits
Invisible integration.
Metal Trackpad combines force sensing and haptic feedback through a fully seamless metal surface, without compromising design or performance.
Reliable intentional interaction.
Nanomade enables true multi-touch interaction, not just single-finger input, allowing users to perform a full range of intuitive gestures directly through metal.
Physical click feeling.
High-resolution haptic feedback adapts vibration intensity to the user’s touch force, recreating a precise mechanical click sensation through a seamless metal surface.
01 — Product development
02 — Prototype
03 — Final use
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