I gave one a go for about 20 minutes a couple of months ago. Honestly, I think they have some way to go, but I'm optimistic they can make it work. Using one o

I gave one a go for about 20 minutes a couple of months ago. Honestly, I think they have some way to go, but I'm optimistic they can make it work. Using one of the sides to control a regular mouse in a game like Civ 5 I found that it was not even as good as a regular laptop touchpad. I suspect that a lot of the reason for that may be software though. There is a lot of subtle stuff going on with the motion of a laptop touchpad that has been built up over a decade of iteration and they just didn't have it tuned right. Using it to control an FPS was interesting, but I was unable to tell if it would be better or worse than, say, a 360 controller in the long term. You certainly can't just pick it up and expect to do well with it quickly. I'm certain that more muscle memory would develop in that area over time though. At the time I tried it, the haptics were only used to emit a clicking sound that was faster the faster you moved your finger along the surface. It vibrates the surface which makes it feel sort of like you are moving your finger across lots of small bumps rather than a flat surface.