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Touchpad

A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device. Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface that detects the position and motion of a user's fingers, and translates them into 2D motion to control a pointer in a graphical user interface. Touchpads are common on laptop computers, contrasted with desktop…

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Operation and function

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Use in devices

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Manufacturing

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Touchpad

Nodes71
Edges70
Triples40
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028169
Components1

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Touchpad

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related to Use in devices · 13
Touchpad → Classic, Creative Labs, Laptops, Microsoft Zune, MP3, One-dimensional, The, Touchpads, Wacom, Zen, Zen Touch, Zune, Zune Pad
related to Theory of operation · 9
Touchpad → Analog Devices, April, George Gerpheide, If, In, The, There, This, When
related to history · 8
Touchpad → Apollo, By, Cat, Embedded, Gavilan SC, In, Introduced, Xerox
related to Operation and function · 7
Touchpad → Capacitance-based, Fingers, For, Hardware, Like, The, Touchpads
used for · 1
Touchpad → functionality beyond a mouse

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touchpads device used also pointing input capacitance mouse trackpads finger touch surface laptop pad right introduced laptops trackpad fingers desktop

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
those found in some Blackberry smartphones work opticallyinstance ofdecreasing the apparent capacitance.Trackpads0.80text
like an optical computer mouseinstance ofdecreasing the apparent capacitance.Trackpads0.80text
Touchpadused forfunctionality beyond a mouse0.80text
Touchpadrelated to historyIn0.60section
Touchpadrelated to historyXerox0.60section
Touchpadrelated to historyEmbedded0.60section
Touchpadrelated to historyCat0.60section
Touchpadrelated to historyBy0.60section
Touchpadrelated to historyApollo0.60section
Touchpadrelated to historyIntroduced0.60section
Touchpadrelated to historyGavilan SC0.60section
Touchpadrelated to Operation and functionTouchpads0.60section

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