Upgrade your MacBook to unprecedented levels with the Nums Smart Glass Trackpad Keyboard. Superbly thin, this device sits right on top of your trackpad. Nums features the one bit of your keyboard that your MacBook is missing: a number keypad. Compatible with pre-2016 and current MacBook laptops, Nums features the numbers 0-9 as well as multiple symbols and an enter key. In addition to the extra keys, Nums also features its own software which integrates with your MacOS software. With a simple swipe or gesture, you can instantly launch websites and apps such as Netflix. Nums becomes an entrance point to your device and it’s all accessible with a single gesture. As an added benefit, Nums offers a layer of protection to your trackpad. Thanks to its ergonomic placement, you can type numbers up to 2.3 times faster than using the row on the keyboard. Because you’re moving your fingers less, you can fly through spreadsheets and documents. It’s no wonder it’s the recipient of the Red Dot Design Best of Best Award.
The photos on our campaign page are all shot with the actual products. The silver ink is metallic. It reflects light, including screen light, so you could use it with ease even in dark environment :) Our inventor is obsessed with perfecting every detail. The hardware looks sleek on your MacBook. The symbols are easy to see and it doesn't standout too much so it ruins the overall look of your MacBook.
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Thank you again for your suggestion. We are constantly looking for ways to improve. Make Nums more accessible to more consumers are one of the most important goals. We welcome more suggestions and we look forward to your feedback and support. Thanks again,
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To answer your question, 1) We actually included our reddot trophy and award certificate in our timeline at the end of our campaign page. Nums won reddot design in 2011 in the design concept category. reddot's website only index design concept awards back till 2014. which is why you didn't find our information online. Here is the website: http://www.red-dot.sg/en/online-exhibitions-listing/. We had many media coverage back then in 2011, including the leading design site in Japan, Yanko Design. Here is their coverage of Nums back in 2011: http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/12/12/hot-number/. We have been working on this product for the past 6 years since our inventor won the reddot award. 2) We mentioned in our previous comment that Nums had two generations of products. Taobao has our first generation product. We are bringing our most updated product to Nums that has NOT been sold anywhere in the world. The current product we are bringing to Kickstarter has metallic ink and multi-arc ion Plasma coating techniques. These two manufacturing techniques are very difficult to maintain. In fact, among hundreds of factories, currently only 5 in China could produce the product that meets our standards. Because we want to bring the best product to Kickstarter backers, we want to keep the standards high, which means high rejection rate (every 100 products we produce, 40 of them will be rejected according to our standards).
In fact, we have gone through Kickstarter's review process to launch our product. The platform made sure it's a brand new product, otherwise they wouldn't approve it :) Our app is not in Apple store and we are working with Apple store team to launch it soon. Like we mentioned our page, the drive could be downloaded from our website, luckeytech.com. Right now the site is designed to guide people to our Kickstarter page.
Moreover, we are also one of the finalists of Good Design award. (The final review is on 8/9, wish us luck :)) We mentioned in our previous updates that this award requires participants to have a completed product to participate (including the software). We are very excited about the final review. We are also a 6-year old company with VC funding. If we could point you to the "why back us" section on our campaign page, from the beginning of the campaign, we shared that we are raising funds for productions. We are looking to build a community, looking for feedback and need support for our future development (which we accomplished two of our goals, colored Nums and Nums for Surface.). We want to transform laptop trackpads, and we mean it :)
(Pledge $46_2016 MacBook Pro 13") & (Pledge $39_pre-2016 MacBooks / MacBook 12") I'm using MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
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Nums brings the best of both worlds together, both of the software and the hardware. We have tested them separately and together. It really brings the best consumer experience when we combine the two together. Without the hardware, we saw many typing errors, which caused unnecessary anxieties. Plus our aluminosilicate glass has gone through many manufacturing process (some are used only by luxury brands like Ferrari :)). It has amazingly smooth touch and feel, and provides even less frictions than Apple's original trackpads.
We are one of the finalists for the prestigious Good Design Award, an award that looks that everything of a product, from design, to user experience, to material used, to eco-friendly manufacturing process, and even to if the product brings improvement to the exiting industrial design culture. This award requires participants to have a completed product to participate (including the software). We are very excited about the final review. We are also a 6-year old company with VC funding. We want to transform laptop trackpads, and we mean it :)
In terms of software updates, right now we are updating at a bi-monthly basis. During the past 6 years of development, team Nums has been through many OS updates, so it's definitely not new to us. In fact, earlier this year, right after Apple releases the new OS system, our engineers worked for many sleepless nights to update our software, so that we could bring the latest product to our Kickstarter community :) Therefore, no worries if Apple releases another update to the software. We are on it.
In terms of how long we will update the software for, let's put it this way, we have big plans for our product, especially the software. In the past couple of months, we've had many significant breakthroughs like we mentioned in our latest update. These include more personalized gestures. For example, swipe a "G" to open Google search; swipe a circle to initiate a shortcut like "control+shift+X". Our vision of the future of the trackpad, is to turn it from a navigation tool to an access entrance. Consumers could access anything locally on their laptops or online, via simple gesture interactions with their trackpads.
Lastly, Kickstarter doesn't allow us to update the rewards once it's backed, but we did have successfully tested Nums with non-retina and pre-2016 MacBook and MacBook pros. As long as your MBP could be updated to the latest OS system, Nums will work perfectly. Nums is also re-stickable, so if you upgrade to the latest MacBook, you could just take it off, and re-attach it to the new trackpad :) 2012 MacBook should be able to update to the latest system last time we check, so your choice of reward is perfect.
We apologize for the delay in response again. Please feel free to let us know if you have other questions. We are happy to answer all of them.
Many thanks again for your support! We are very grateful.
We can't wait to share our invention with you and we look forward to your feedback.
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Team Nums
https://support.apple.com/kb/sp644… Upgraded it with 16gb Ram and Samsung 850 Pro 2TB SSD and it dances circles around some of the "newer models" so never had a reason to upgrade.
This sound good, but what can we expect for driver support? How do we know this product won't be useless when Mac updates their operating system again?
How long are you promising driver updates for??? Unless your product goes successfully beyond Kickstarter, this doesn't seem viable. Please let us know what your plans and guarantees are. I'd am thinking about upgrading to get some for my family but am hesitant until this is clarified. Thank you.
From the number typing perspective, we have tried to only use the software and the user experience doesn't meet our standards. Because users can't see exactly where to touch to type, it causes many typing errors and unnecessary stress. It actually slows down the process, because users have to correct their input. The best experience happens when we bring both software and hardware together.
We are constantly looking for opportunities to improve. Please feel free to let us know if you have other questions or suggestions. We are grateful for the opportunity to listen to our customers :) Many thanks,
Team Nums
Nums™ brings the best of software and hardware together. We chose to stick with the integration, because it brings the best user experience. We have tried to not pair the hardware to the software, and just use the application to type numbers and use the gesture interactions. It does work; however, because users can't see exactly where to touch to type, it causes many typing errors and unnecessary stress. It didn't meet our standards for the best user experience. Therefore, our ultra-thin Aluminosilicate glass does more than providing a grid and protection; it effectively elevates the product efficiency and user experience. On this note, we actually received many creative comments on social media. One of many comment is "why not draw boxes on trackpads to achieve the same level of efficiency?” Why would you do that to your trackpad? We asked. It really doesn't look good when you draw on your trackpad and pretty much ruins the trackpad, the opposite of protecting your trackpad... ;) We are very proud of our sleek design. This sleek design has won many industrial design awards, including reddot 'best of best' (only top 1% of all entries) and we are currently in the final review for 'Good Design' award. We have mentioned in our previous comments how Nums™ stands by the highest level of production standards. Ultra-thin special metallic ink, multi-arc plasma coating, symbols on the back of the glass, etc. Many of these hardward designs are first-evers in the industry. We don't settle down for 'good enough'. Same on the appearance. All our photos on the page are shot with the actual products. Nums™ not only transforms trackpads from the functional perspective, but also on the appearance. On top of protecting your trackpad from oil build-up and many other damages, Nums™ does make your trackpad look cool. Many thanks again for your interest and support! We are really grateful for every opportunity to grow and to improve. We look forward to your feedback and support! Best,
Team Nums
Trackpad is roughly L 106mm x W 66mm.
I am also considering replacing my mouse with a trackpad (not sure which yet). I am not interested in the overlay, just the software. So it would be nice if we could specify the trackpad size within the application and make setting from there.
Great news - from the software side, we have achieved significant breakthroughs. Our chief engineer has told us (literally last week) that our software could now function stably on many windows laptops. We even added more gesture interactions. For example, you could launch applications by just swipe a circle or any custom gesture on your trackpad (not limited to number boxes). How exciting! The software is currently going through beta trials and more optimizations, so it could more accurately recognize finger movements. When we move our fingers on the trackpad, there are many touch points and could produce a lot of "noise". Cutting through all these "noises" to accurately understand users' intention is one of the core technologies of Nums™. Therefore, this trial and optimization period is extremely important.
We also have some great news on the hardware side. The team has tried many creative solutions to solve the trackpad size issues for Windows. One of the solutions has been performing consistently well. We are also in conversation with some of the top laptop manufacturers to see if there's opportunity there.
Team Nums is very excited about our progress at the Windows front. We are planning to share more in detail in our updates. Stay tuned!
It might be a good idea for us to start collecting consumer wishlist for Windows :) If you don't mind, could you please let us know your Windows laptop model?
We also provide a "Nums Supporter" reward, which includes an iphone charging cable, our inventor's sketches and an exclusive ID code. The Kickstarter exclusive ID code could be used to redeem for discounts when you purchase our products in the future (i.e. our Windows or Surface products).
Many thanks again for your interest and support for Nums™. We really appreciate it. We look forward to your feedback and support.
Best,
Team Nums
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