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The lack of number pad on laptop causes great inconvenience for number typing. Nums is an easy and unique solution to the problem.
Touchpad is a common hardware of laptops, which works as a mouse. Attach the Nums, which is a piece of precision manufactured ultra-thin glass sticker with symbols including 0-9, +, -, *, / and Enter, on the touchpad. Then install a small software to link areas with symbols. Switch touchpad to inputting mode with customized hotkey, user can input numbers and do arithmetic efficiently with touchpad without moving their finger from side to side to find numbers on the conventional horizontal number keys. The symbol is carefully printed, with the precision levels of one thousandth of a millimeter, on the back side of the pristine glass to achieve a fadeless quality, as a durable device is a greener device. The multi arc plasma sputtering vacuum coating process reduces friction dramatically by two-third than the original touchpad surface, brings the eye-catching, extraordinary layout amazing smooth, superior touch with less resistance. Thanks to the algorithms design of the software, which is optimized for 6 years with expert curation and advanced machine learning, the responsive typing performance just feels right.
The combined software also create 16 quick start options allow user to open their commonly used applications and favorite websites just with gliding of a finger. This intuitive interaction design make better use of the touchpad, providing instant access to the content user want, right when they want them.
Nums, a seamless integration design of hardware and software, by most environmental friendly way, provides billions of laptop users the most idiomatic number pad and an unique customizable quicker control experience. So that work efficiency is improved and office cost is reduced.
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Integrating the best of software technology, materials technology with industrial design, Nums ultra-thin smart keypad is a pure invention from inside out that will change the way people think about the touchpad of a laptop today. It not only save on material costs of bulky peripherals, but also save on labour hours, free-up limited laptop mobility, promote endless possibility of gesture interaction convenience for users.
Nums also provide a unique selling point for laptop market, especially the high-profit business and gaming laptop markets. Perceptual input and interaction techniques can be applied to other areas such as Internet of Things and Smart Home too.
Number keypad makes its debut on the touchpad, with new capabilities designed just for the touch interaction and time saving. Nums keypad provides a range of 20 number and function keys to complement your laptop keyboard. It pairs wirelessly with your MacBook or Windows laptops using gesture technology, so you're free to start right after you attaching it on the touchpad. It is an ideal time-saver for data entry and accounting activities, the keypad also makes an appealing design statement with amazing smooth touch. The multi arc plasma sputtering vacuum coating process reduces friction dramatically by two-third than the original touchpad surface, brings the eye-catching, extraordinary layout amazing smooth, superior touch with less resistance. Nums is made with an advanced high-precision material that form fits to the touchpad, so you get maximum typing comfort and protection.
And that’s not the only way the touchpad is cooler. And patented gesture algorithms behind it helps you rediscover your best photos, shop faster and more conveniently, and work more seamlessly between convenient services just with gliding of a finger.
The software is crafted with as much attention to detail as the hardware. It has been optimized for 6 years with expert curation and advanced machine learning, the responsive typing performance just feels right. For example, when the fingers touch the keys, they always have a small sliding. And our algorithm can filter these messy signals to produce accurate input results.
The software solution can be applied to new laptops of the manufacturers without the Nums hardware. Customization with service access and particularly fast and accessible physical UI interaction creates further business opportunity.
Ideas are extremely fragile, so over the 6 years, we’ve really created a team to nurture them. We’ve worked very hard to ask an awful lot of questions. We have really made it a practice to just have our heads down and work. We ignore, in some senses, all the reasons why something shouldn’t be possible. Every single component, every process has been considered and measured to made it truly useful, and it actually enhances users’ experience. It is meticulously designed, engineered and crafted. Incredible transitions and quite shocking change is the behind the scene as boxes and boxes of the models and prototypes finally came to be a product that people love.
In these works, we keep thinking that how can we make high quality product without taking finite resources from the earth. On the very first prototypes the symbols were printed on the front side of a plastic and protected by matte textured coating. But the coating will wear out after a few months and the printing will gone later. Although the disappearance of the symbols means new purchases and profits, we do not allow this to be happened. As a touch interface and green solution, durable design is critical. Printing should not on the paste side is a principle as this produces bubbles when the sticker is attached. Fadeless quality and no bubbles seems hardly can be achieved at the same time. It takes us years of hard work through research, and finally we solve the bubble problem by preciously managing the manufacture process to control thickness of the printing less than one thousandth of a millimeter. Now, on every sheet of Nums, the symbol is carefully printed on the back side of the pristine glass to achieve a fadeless quality. The software technology means updates will bring new function without replacing the hardware. Our packaging, manufacture process, coating process is either recycled or responsibly sourced.
This product has made bulky number pad peripherals unnecessary. Although the change may seem insignificant, it’s a world-changing innovation in a sense that to think there are 230 million of laptops are sold at convenience store yearly and 930 million of laptops are being use for heavier jobs can not be done by phones. So that this product greatly helps reduce the amount of waste time in our work. This product shows the designer’s clear goal of solving a problem with simplicity, and it has achieved its goal through intensive trial and error. A way of creating design worth to be pursued.