We never really knew anyone intrigued by Pogo’s iPhone stylus, but the company’s newest writin’ stick puts that capacitive touch-compatible tech to a way more interesting use — turning touchpads into large digitizer tablets. That’d be particularly useful for new MacBook owners who’re rocking those gigantor buttonless trackpads, but we’ll have to see this $15 accessory in action before we say Wacom’s got anything to worry about.

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You’ve seen our hands-on first impressions, now check the video summary of the new multi-touch, glass trackpad featured on Apple’s new MacBooks. It covers 2-, 3-, and 4- finger gestures in addition to the traditional 1 finger gestures some of you would like to direct towards Steve for all those glossy displays. See the demonstration after the break.

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Just when you think you’ve seen the iPhone perform its last magic trick (making you eggs benedict, solving the inverse Galois problem, a brief appearance on Dancing With the Stars) something like this comes along to make your jaw drop just a little bit more. Touchpad for the iPhone is built on top of VNsea, but instead of allowing you to navigate your desktop on the device, it becomes what is essentially a wireless, remote trackpad, which gives you direct access to your system as if you were using a mouse or touch device for input. It sounds interesting in description, but looks amazing in execution — check the video after the break to see what it does, then go get the app loaded up and try it yourself.

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