Features:
The X-Wing pad is slightly bulkier than most cooling pads - I see it being aimed more at those people who want something to permanently keep on their desk. It's constructed primarily of coloured plastic with the top mesh being a thin powder-coated metal. As you can see in my photographs there is a strip of colour that goes around the outer edge of the pad and wraps under the back; this is available in red, silver, white or yellow. The rest of the pad is black in colour.

To keep your laptop anchored in place, the large (and flat) mesh on top has three larger rubber strips on it. When your laptop is in place, it's pretty hard to slide it around on these strips.

The underside of the pad is completely closed in with lots of ventilation for the fan. I see many cheaper cooling pads which have an open bottom where the fan(s) are - this isn't always friendly to fingers or small objects that may make their way underneath it when in operation! There are two small fold-out feet on the back half of the bottom where the coloured strip wraps around. These will provide you with some extra elevation if needed on your work surface.

In addition to another large fan vent across the back of the pad, there are two small inset areas on either side. The left one simply houses two USB ports and the right one has one USB port, a mini-USB port (used to power the pad with the included cable) and a DC power plug too (no adapter included - this is only necessary if you choose not to power the pad through USB). You're probably asking why Glacialtech didn't include a 4-port USB hub like most pads have. The answer to that is quite simple! Most USB controller chips used in hubs allow for four ports but since Glacialtech added a bunch of touch-sensative media controls they had to connect those into one of the four available USB channels coming off that chipset. By doing that, they were left with three remaining channels to put blank USB ports on.

The touch buttons on the front bezel area are divided into two main categories; media control (slightly smaller) and cooling pad control (slightly larger). Media control buttons allow you to launch media player and do your basic commands; play, stop, back, forward, volume up and volume down. I wish they would reverse the location of the volume buttons because it seems more logical to put them in the order of up then down, instead of the other way around. Next you'll find the pad control buttons, these include a power button, fan button, temperature button, lock and auto/manual fan control. If choosing manual fan control, there is a six-line fan speed indicator that you can touch positive or negative logos to control the fan accordingly. A two-digit LED number display will show you the fan RPM (times the number shown by 100) or the temperature of the laptop sitting on it (hard to say how useful that actually is). All the buttons also illuminate a soft blue colour and stay a darker blue when enabled or pulse a darker blue when touched if they aren't an on/off button.