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not everyone has a computer hooked up to their main living room home theater setup but maybe they should it's a great way to get high-end PC gaming on a big screen it makes it easy to stream a lot of content and of course it's the best way to set up virtual reality in a big living room space but the problem has always been how do you drive that computer whether it's a mini desktop or big gaming Tower you can get a standard wireless keyboard and put it on your lap or I've tried a gyroscopic mice nothing really works that seamlessly that's why I really like the idea of the Lenovo 500 it's a multimedia control that looks like a combination of a tiny PC keyboard and an oversized old-fashioned blackberry keyboard the big difference between this and other wireless keyboards is that it's the standard QWERTY keyboard but the entire surface doubles as a touchpad there's no separate touchpad how does it work but you click down on the keys to type as you normally would but then you just swipe your finger over the actual keys without pressing down of them to use the touchpad you know it's small enough you can hold it in both hands and your thumb should be able to reach all the keys while you're typing and then you can use one finger for a standard Mouse input use 2 fingers as a tap for a right-click as opposed to a left-click and then you can even do 2 and 3 finger gestures like scrolling it feels it works very much like a traditional touchpad you just have to get used to the feeling of the raised keys under your finger there's a little curve on the back to make it easier to pick up from a flat surface like a coffee table and they say it should work from about 65 feet away it's a clever idea that addresses a problem that today does not have a definitive solution touch painting by swiping over the keyboard it's a little hard to get used to but I got better at it the more I tried so I'm looking forward to testing this out some more the Lenovo 500 it's expected in March for $54 in the US you