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Interactive Metal Trackpad

Project 

As laptop manufacturers continue to pursue premium, minimalist designs, integrating high-performance touch interfaces into metal surfaces remains a significant challenge. Traditional trackpads often require dedicated components, mechanical structures, or design compromises that limit both aesthetics and durability.

To address this challenge, a leading PC manufacturer sought to develop a fully integrated metal trackpad with no visible buttons or mechanical cuts, while maintaining the precision, responsiveness, and user experience of a conventional trackpad.

Implementation

Nanomade ultra-sensitive deformation sensors are seamlessly integrated beneath the metal trackpad surface, transforming it into a highly responsive human-machine interface without altering the product’s design.

The sensors accurately detect a wide range of interactions, including:

Unlike conventional capacitive solutions, Nanomade technology enables intentional interaction detection while preventing accidental activations. Its invisible integration preserves the premium aesthetics of the device while delivering precise and reliable user input directly through metal.

The Nanomade Solution

Nanomade transforms metal surfaces into intuitive and interactive interfaces, enabling manufacturers to rethink the design of laptops and consumer electronics.

Nanomade is uniquely positioned in the market with a technology capable of delivering invisible force sensing interactions directly through metal surfaces, opening new possibilities for next-generation consumer electronics.

Client

Confidential

Showreal

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