Two Videos of E-Lead's Noahpad in Action

Engadget has a couple of great videos depicting the new 'Noahpad' laptop offering from E-Lead. This laptop offers a new kind of touchpad that is integrated with the keyboard. An interesting idea to be sure, but I doubt I could ever get used to typing on something this strange.

funny video

[badboy_tw2002]

Ok, I know its not the point of the article, but if you want to make a serious product demo video (which it seems like they did), wouldn't you first want a native English speaker to massage the copy a bit before the British guy reads it? Excellently dictated British Engrish (Britgrish?), its a first!

could work. But not this one.

[Janek Kozicki]

Summary: they are using "Virtual" screen option, available since years in X11. Throw in two touchpads (one for mouse, second for scrolling on virtual desktop) and totally DESTROY the keyboard layout.

Two touchpads are nice. I don't mind the lack of per-key response when typing, probably could get used to it. But the keyboard layout? C'mon, that will be the next PCjr of "dual-touchpads". PCjr inveneted pc101 keyboard layout, see?, so I bet that they just invented "two touchpads" thingy.

If this is ever gonna work, it will be touchpads overlaid on a classical keyboard, and the border frame between them will be just to fit between the keys.

Fractured English

[Rorschach1]

I love how the voiceover - done by someone who's clearly a native English speaker - sticks exactly to the fractured English script. You've got to wonder if it just wasn't part of his job to point out all of the errors, or if the non-native speaker who wrote it had too high an opinion of his own language skills to listen to him.

Re:They call that a keyboard?

[Samgilljoy]

The commercial reminds me of nothing so much as when Homer Simpson introduced that monstrous car he designed for his half-brother Herb's company.

I'm also a little confused by the CEO's assertion that "most people have laptop computers".

Most people in the world don't have a computer at all, so he can't mean them.

Most people who do have computers own desktops, so he can't mean them.

Perhaps most people he knows have laptop computer, in which case, he can expect to sell the Noahpad to his mom and his friends, but I don't know about the rest of his market.

Are we absolutely sure the Onion didn't do that commercial?