"Slide it to the side of the keyboard and the personality changes completely. Nape Pro turns into a compact, wireless trackball with full macro pad ambitions, complete with layers, shortcuts, and ZMK powered customization. It is less a mouse replacement and more a modular control surface that just happens to move your cursor, wherever you decide to park it. Seeing it here at the Keychron booth, tucked under a Q1 Pro, the immediate impression is how little space it occupies."
"The whole unit is only 135.2 mm long and 34.7 mm wide, so it fits neatly within the footprint of a standard tenkeyless board without feeling like an afterthought. They are using quiet Huano micro switches for the six buttons, which makes sense for a device meant to live right under your palms where an accidental loud click would be infuriating. The 25 mm ball is smaller than what you would find on a Kensington Expert, but it feels responsive enough for quick navigation."
A slim, keyboard-adjacent control bar integrates a 25 mm thumb trackball, six buttons, and a scroll wheel to provide laptop-style precision while preserving mechanical keyboard posture. The unit can sit flush against a keyboard or slide to the side to function as a compact wireless trackball and macro pad with layered shortcuts and ZMK-powered customization. At 135.2 mm by 34.7 mm the device fits within a tenkeyless footprint. Quiet Huano micro switches reduce noise for palm-adjacent placement. The smaller trackball delivers responsive navigation optimized for thumb use, minimizing travel between keyboard and pointing device. Orientation-aware OctaShift remaps controls based on position.
Read at Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
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