Death to the mouse: Apple’s trackpad hits the shops

The first whiff of an Apple trackpad was as far back as 2008, with a fresh bout of enthusiasm when the patent application was unearthed earlier this summer . Now the rumour has become a reality with the first Magic Trackpads released for sale through the Apple Store. Why yet more fuss for yet another Apple product? Because it symbolises the end of an era - the end of the mouse. As ever, Apple's brilliance is in refining consumer electronics to a form factor usable by the mainstream; the trackpad indicates the much needed death of the RSI-inducing mouse, another piece of hardware that Apple didn't invent, but did popularise . Magic trackpads are £59, wireless, 80% bigger than the trackpads on a MacBook Pro and work from 10 metres away. Eventually, a touchpad could replace both keyboard and mouse through a touchscreen interface

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Death to the mouse: Apple's trackpad hits the shops