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welcome to my unboxing of the a zo k b-17 8rt mini thumb keyboard so as you guys may or may not know if you've watched a few my videos I'm kind of a fan of keyboards and mice and pointing devices that make life easier with immediacy because I'm one of these seven people in the world who actually has one so actually no there's more than seven but you know so okay so let's have a look at this guy compact form factor designed specifically for home theater pcs easy navigation using the built-in optical trackball now that's cool eight dedicated multimedia hotkeys including all the ones you can see here you can read them if you really care 2.4 gigahertz RF technology provides up to 30 feet and wireless range that's not bad because I have actually run into products that I haven't been able to get to work properly from the couch which is ridiculous okay so rechargeable batteries included awesome scissor key caps architecture makes typing silent stable uncomfortable scissor keys are not necessarily the most durable but as they pointed out they are very quiet so there's that going for it compatible with Windows 7 comes with a mini USB dongle built-in trackball with left-handed mouse buttons and let's open this bad boy up oh it's actually smaller than I thought when I saw the size of the box I thought I was gonna be like oh how am I gonna reach the middle keys but it's actually much much smaller than that slacker meets the middle keys just fine cool okay so here we go oh no way it comes with actual rechargeable nickel metal hydride batteries look at that like you know how normally when something says comes with rechargeable battery I was even thinking I was like oh well what about when the battery runs out what am I gonna do with like some proprietary internal battery keyboard I'm not gonna be able to use my computer no way comes with rechargeable triple A's BAM I just got damned by Ezio because they were all like yeah we thought of that huh cool ok comes with wow they weren't kidding when they said I like mini USB receiver they get that stuck in the port no you kiddin but okay and then there's your charging cable so that's pretty cool so you plug that into a new USB port you plug that into one of your other USB ports you throw these guys into the keyboard itself so let's go ahead and do that now okay you got your pairing button you got your on/off button you can turn it off if you don't want to waste your battery let's go ahead and see if we can get that in there yeah okay so there it is so let's have a look at what we think of the overall overall build - this guy so can we type on it with our fingers not really okay so when they call it a thumb keyboard they really do mean it the spacebar even with my smallish hands so guys bear in mind my hands are not very big here Slick's hand for for context see that's the size of my hand compare just like that so they're safe okay so remember that so even with my small hands I can easily reach the spacebar with both with both hands okay so my home row keys are where are they yeah they're here and here right yeah my home row keys are not quite centered it's a bit of a pet peeve for me personally for thumb keyboards I wish it was a little bit over here but they're not as far off as the one that I'm using now which really bugs me because it's like not even close so it's like over here like something stupid like that okay so home row keys are fairly easy to reach as well I can reach escape I can reach backspace very easily enters here one shift key I wouldn't have minded seeing two shift keys that would have been better if there's one over here but I can see why they made that change because they had to put in the arrow keys they had to put them somewhere and I don't really see what other options they have because what else is cool about this is check this out it has almost everything it's got your caps lock it's got this haven't no it doesn't have a number pad but it's got your f8 keys they're all built in with a function key it's got like dedicated bracket keys so you can type almost anything with this thing without any challenges you've also got a battery life indicator and something about rechargeable batteries so I don't know what that would actually indicate but then you've got a bunch of media buttons as well and here are your left and right click buttons so this is an optical trackball let's find out how well it works so yeah that's just let's see how quickly we can get it going out of the box ok so plug the thing into the thing make sure my hold on don't worry at the computer yet I need to make I don't have anything inappropriate up on my speed okay that we're good and installing device driver USB composite device RF dongle I'm gonna stand over here so that I'm kind of under the light so you guys can see the keyboard somewhat searching Windows Update I'm gonna press the pairing thing now to see if that does anything it's kind of recessed tough to press actually oh yeah when in doubt just use a knife okay so the claims it's ready to use on the computer side anyway so let's press the home button what's the home button gonna do okay maybe I should actually open something and try to type let's see if it's working yet nope not yet okay ooo I didn't turn it on haha okay let's bring back the knife see this is the kind of stuff that goes on off-camera sometimes so I'm being very brave when I actually work on things on camera with you people because as you can clearly see I'm not actually that good at using computer stuff there we go it's working okay so let's take like hello world Hey oh did I accidentally hit the out I did shoot I accidentally hit the eye okay come back face hello world very usable so if you just want to Google something or whatever else then that's qu and let's oh let's try the trackball okay hey that's actually not that hard to use check this out so I'm gonna go and I'm gonna save this particular document and I'm gonna put it in my Starcraft 2 folder because that makes a lot of sense go ahead there this is very very usable cool okay so that's the idea of thumb keyboard thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos of things that actually include rechargeable triple-a batteries the crap has never seen this before