Kensington Unveils SlimBlade Trackball

The latest offering in Kensington’s SlimBlade collection is a trackball designed to keep your eyes on the screen and your hand on the device when surfing, flipping through your media, and editing photos. With a high priority placed on comfort and efficiency, the SlimBlade Trackball can hopefully be used for hours without wrecking your wrist.

Kensington hopes to help users stay immersed in their media, even when using the controls. They paired the trackball with software that provides a heads-up display which to allow you to navigate through music, images, and documents with three different control modes: Media, Navigation, and View.

Media mode provides “fingertip access” to volume, play/pause, stop, and next as well as an easy way to navigate through music, pictures and documents; View mode zooms in/out and pans for accurate photo editing; Navigation mode controls the cursor and scrolling.

The SlimBlade Trackball is both Mac and PC compatible and designed to work with most popular browsers, graphic software (including Photoshop, Lightroom and iPhoto), office and productivity applications, and document readers. MSRP is 129.99.