Hardware Solution to Draw Chinese Characters under Snow Leopard

Under Snow Leopard one is able to draw Chinese characters on multi-gesture laptop touchpads and the system will suggest the correct character, which you can then select and use in e-mail, documents, etc. This feature is also implement on iPhone/iTouch under OS 3.
On Friday I'll install OS 10.6 on my Intel iMac. Is there a third party USB touchpad (or other hardware solution) that would allow me to access this Chinese character drawing feature on the iMac?

I doubt there is anything like what you are looking for, unless perhaps the iPhone or iPod Touch can be used as an input device for a desktop. But I'd ask on the Chinese-mac list as well:
http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/

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