The Flexbar is designed to bring back all the joy of the Touch Bar to your Mac, but isn't an Apple product. It's a third-party add-on that's currently raising money on Kickstarter, and while it's aimed primarily at Mac laptop users, it's a cross-platform peripheral that connects via USB-C.

This Kickstarter project is bring back the Apple Touch Bar -- but this time it works with a whole range of devices and is at least ten times more customisable.

Ideally it’s not repurposing Apple’s Touch Bar screens, which have a limited supply stock. So what makes the Flexbar worth using when Apple failed to make its Touch Bar a compelling feature? As a standalone device,