{"id":930,"date":"2022-12-23T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=930"},"modified":"2022-12-23T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:20:05","slug":"hands-on-with-e-leads-noahpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on with E-Lead&#8217;s Noahpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gotta be honest, as we approached the Noahpad, we figured it was some sort of mockup or prototype &#8212; the &#8220;keyboard&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t look real. It turns out that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s not real, though, and that&#8217;s by design. The tiny PC features two trackpads side by side with pictures of keys on them; running your finger over the key you want and pressing down actuates the key. A button switches between keyboard and mouse modes &#8212; a little inconvenient perhaps, but hey, when you&#8217;re holding the thing with two hands and using a pair of thumbs to type and navigate, what else can you expect? When you&#8217;re too cool to use the Noahpad in traditional laptop configuration, it can be flipped completely around so that you&#8217;re only looking at the display while the keypad is actuated with your fingers on back and navigated using an on-screen display (check the gallery to see what we&#8217;re talking about). A little unorthodox, yes, but this sucker&#8217;s one of the most versatile UMPCs we&#8217;ve yet laid eyes on.<\/p>\n<p>%Gallery-13078%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve gotta be honest, as we approached the Noahpad, we figured it was some sort of mockup or prototype &#8212; the &#8220;keyboard&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t look real. It turns out that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s not real, though, and that&#8217;s by design. The tiny PC features two trackpads side by side with pictures of keys on them; running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[836,837,838,1180,839,67,840,1181,1182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}