_Behold, the Revolutionary Apple Wireless Touchboard Concept - AppleMatters: “Therefore, it is my earnest desire that Apple does away with the mouse completely and replaces it with a keyboard like the one I’ve shown below (click on it to enlarge it), the ‘Apple Wireless Touchboard’ perhaps. The name sounds ridiculous, I know, but it’s not like I ever professed to be the creative type anyway.
The same Multi-touch trackpad that the Macbook Pro and MacBook Air boast of could be added onto the keyboard itself, allowing you to enjoy all the benefits of a desktop Mac without losing out on one of the best features from the notebook side of the lineup. It will be completely in tandem with Apple’s philosophy too:”
(Via AppleMatters.)_
Yup - I’ve been waiting for something like this for a very long time. The perfect complement to a mediacenter Mini since you can drive everything from the couch from one device. Given that the Apple bluetooth keyboard lost the number pad, replacing it with a trackpad would keep it in the realm of a reasonably sized device. Plus when sitting in front of the TV/computer it would be quite discreet. Although I’d like to see a Lion battery that charges when plugged in via USB. Wired when you’re working directly, and wireless as soon as you unplug it. Plus I could lose the mouse.
There have been a few attempts in this direction already, but most of them are too large and ugly (especially ugly). From a purely technical standpoint the Adesso is pretty good, but fails badly in the cheap and ugly department.
Again on the practical standpoint, the Motion Computing keyboard is nice, but why can’t they make a better looking version?
From the cool front, there’s the Logitech diNovo wireless keyboard, but you’ll have to convince it to work with OS X and it’s freaking huge (albeit very slim). In the charger it would block a significant part of the bottom of my TV and I don’t particularly want to make it the centerpiece of the living room.
I could definitely see me buying the design proposed by AppleMatters (but the trackpad needs to be a little smaller)