Magic Numpad Turns a Magic Trackpad Into a Number Pad

I just wish apple would make a wireless version of the full-sized keyboard. I love my full keyboard.

Wireless keyboard - $70
Magic Trackpad - $70
Twelve South Magic Wand - $20
This crap - $30
Estimated total - $190

Wired keyboard with numpad - $50

By god, this product saves you -$140!! Amazing!!

Genius!

Useless. If you have to look at it instead of feel button separations it's pointless, as any 'accounting majors' or data entry workers (what I did years ago) will tell you. It's true a num pad it's worth it's weight in gold for speedy numbers but that's only if you can keep your eyes on the data and let your fingers do the keyboard work...

While this may be a neat idea, I don't see it being practical. Usually people who need the Num Pad need it for speed and accuracy, I don't see this providing either.

I'll stick with my 1979 Atari CX-85.

Huh, that's actually kind of neat. I wonder what the price point is though? I mean you can get a num pad for $20 or less at office max, might not be sleek and cool though :P

To be honest, if it doesn't have any texture to it, there'd be no reason to have to remove it, I could see it working just fine for each purpose!

Edit: It's $30. That's not bad I guess. Kind of a neat idea. I'll stick with my small portable one I got for next to nothing with a retractable USB cord. It's not shiny and aluminum, but it works and I can hide it's ugliness in a drawer when not in use.

If you have iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, save $30 and buy one of many apps that turns iOS devices into numeric keypad, such as NumPad.

I just wish apple would make a wireless version of the full-sized keyboard. I love my full keyboard.

Same here, and without the full number pad I feel like things are missing. I use the number pad often

Instead of putting the key labels onto a touch-sensitive area the touch-sensitive area should be put onto the key labels.
That means every haptic key, including the numpad, should become a depressible tiny touchpad and a software driver should combine all 80–110 “key-pads” into a huge virtual touchpad. Thus the whole keyboard area would be used in a 3D way: the X and Y axis for position and movement of the pointer, the Z axis for typing.

Then we would only have one input device instead of two that have been with us for 30 years now. There’s no need to combine output and input device everywhere, as has been done with the iphone, ipod and ipad.

One problem is that for many devices the width of the keyboard may be close to the width of the screen, but their heights will mismatch. Therefore, the vertical touch resolution would have to be finer than the horizontal one.

Actually, it would be even more useful on mobile phones and other devices with numeric keyboard only and a small screen that you would obfuscate with the touch of a finger.