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AirBar adds a few more touchscreen tricks to the MacBook Air
Back at CES we saw a prototype of the AirBar, an odd but useful device that sits below your MacBook Air's screen and turn it into a touchscreen. Now at SXSW 2017, the company is back with a new model that's almost ready for production. The big difference between the product we saw at CES and this latest one is that it supports some of the most important things you need to make a touchscreen work: multitouch.
AirBar gives your MacBook Air a touchscreen for $99
Sure, the new MacBook Pro has that fancy Touch Bar, but some Apple laptop owners long for a machine with a full touchscreen display. A company called AirBar already gave the PC faithful a USB accessory that gives a 15.6-inch screen a more tactile function, and at CES it's doing the same for the 13.3-inch MacBook Air. The company calls the device "plug-and-touch," which means you don't have to worry about futzing with drivers before you can use the gadget.
