Here’s a confession. From an Apple fanboy. I think Apple’s mice are a joke. Anyone who has ever spent any time, feeling like a dork, with a R600 Mighty mouse upside-down on a sheet of clean white printer paper, rolling the scroll-ball round and round to leech the oil/dirt/whatever from the microscopic ball and it’s rollers, so that the blessed thing will scroll up and down like it should, knows JUST what I mean. Now, I’ve only briefly tried the Magic mouse (and I DID like it..) so maybe I’m a little behind the curve, and Apple was in agreement, and did something about it, but still…They WERE diabolical.

Apples trackpads, however, are simply full of awesome. They are the stuff that other PC-makers dream of, and aspire to. Matched by innovative software and cleverly cross-pollinated from bred-in Touch devices like the iPhone, Apple’s trackpads are the gold-standard to be measured against. And now, there are serious rumors, backed up by an FCC match-up of reference numbers, of an external multitouch touchpad. Here’s what it looks like:

The wedge-shaped trackpad, which was leaked in June, has had its model number matched up with a device on the FCC site, so we think the rumors, might really be facts. The timing of the FCC report is interesting, because Apple, in it’s uniquely paranoid way, files confidentiality requests to hide new goodies for as long as possible to maximise announcement-day impact, so if it’s posted on the FCC site now, that means the product is going to be announced soon. Yay!