Apple’s all clicking, swiping’n’scrolling Magic Trackpad announced

Inviting you to let your fingers do the clicking, scrolling and swiping is Apple’s new Magic Trackpad which has just been officially announced after months of leaks.

Priced at $69 and sporting the same sculpted aluminium design as the Apple Wireless Keyboard, the trackpad is billed as, “the multi-touch trackpad for your desktop,” and uses the same touch technology that “you love” on the MacBook Pros.

Gestures galore

The trackpad supports a full set of gestures including two-finger scrolling, pinching to zoom, rotating with your fingertips, three-finger swiping, and activating Exposé or switching between applications with four fingers:

• Click
  Press down anywhere on the Multi-Touch surface to physically click or double-click. Or, with “Tap to Click” enabled in System Preferences, simply tap or double-tap the surface.
• Scroll
  Brush two fingers along the Multi-Touch surface to scroll in any direction — vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
• Swipe
  Using three fingers, brush left and right along the Multi-Touch surface to page forward and back.
• Rotate
  With your thumb and index finger on the Multi-Touch surface, twist clockwise or counterclockwise to rotate an image.