Knucklebop

What it does

Tap twice to mute your mic in any meeting. Three times to play music. Four for a menu of anything.

Tap your MacBook

Knucklebop turns the motion sensor already inside your MacBook into invisible buttons. Tap the palm rest, or the desk right next to it, two to six times, and your Mac does something different for each count, in each app. Two to six light taps beside the trackpad, or on the desk next to your MacBook. Your timing doesn't matter, just the count. Each app or website can have its own taps. Everything else uses your "anywhere" taps. A small pill confirms what happened. One stray bump never counts. Pick an app, then click the palm rest (or focus it and press Space) a few times. This is exactly how the app decides what to do. Website rules beat app rules, and app rules beat "anywhere" rules. One…from knucklebop.com

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