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this is a product I'm actually quite excited to have a look at this is the vision tech candy board it's a wireless mini keyboard with a built-in touchpad so one of the things that they're saying is so cool about this is that the fact that is the fact that the touchpad is capable of being used in both a horizontal or a vertical position and also that the quality of the touchpad is right up there with the ones that you'd find on a laptop versus some of the other kind of lame touchpad integrated keyboard units that just use a really low quality touchpad like it's basically as if it's not even really meant to be used it has a built-in laser pointer so I guess you could use it for pointing at stuff it has a USB connector with no drivers needed and it has a little compartment to store the USB dongle there is a USB input for charging the unit and it works with Windows ps3 xbox360 Mac and Linux so basically everything you could want I lost my unboxing knife when I accidentally tried to take my keychain onto the plane with me when I went to mark him and not really thinking about it before taking my keys I left my knife on the keys and obviously that got confiscated by airport security funnily enough not until the return ride so the Vancouver Airport did not find the knife whereas the Toronto Airport did so that's the candy board it is tiny like I have small hands and already it's like you can see it's like got palm palm sized keyboard okay let's just have a look at what accessories are included if any and then we'll move on to there so we have a USB cable for charging the device then we have the user's manual turn off this device in the hospital attention to two tuna create this device while driving okay that's good these are good safety precautions as they're giving us here all right well here's a little map of the keyboard let's go ahead and take it out so it's got the little laser caution on it it's because it does have an included laser pointer so that's the first thing I want to try let's flip the switch to on and then try the laser pointer ah I'd have a laser pointer you okay so you can oh here here here's an idea what's that they love chasing the laser pointer that's rocket and here's Rumble okay anyway I digress the candy board then so here's the touchpad the touchpad is big enough to be comfortably used with the thumb and that's exactly the position that it's there for although with a finger you might get a little bit more range out of it because the thumb you see I can't actually move my thumb too much on it and let's have a look at the keyboard itself actually I didn't want to talk about the layout of it so here so here's the touchpad there's the laser pointer there's the direction keys okay so that's handy to have and then there's a left mouse button a right mouse button so in case you want to operate the touchpad like this that would work quite well for you so I guess the touchpad can also be used this way although I don't know if there's a toggle for that or if it just knows which way it's being used okay so function keys okay function and alt is oh there's your start key so if you hold function and press that one that's your start key here's your Windows key like what oh no this is the ninety degree flip aha there's the start key the windows key okay so that's how you flip the touchpad to operate it this way okay that's cool power switch here's your RF communication indicator as well as your battery indicator and there's your shift or function not sure which one it is indicator so you have a caps lock key tab escape shift you've got basically a full keyboard on here see how easily you can actually type on it so if I want to go to WWN CI XCOM I mean that's really what this is for is just like entering a web address for your media PC like you're not gonna use it a ton but I'd say that you know it's tough because this thumb very comfortably reaches all of the left-hand keys whereas this thumb because of my smaller hands actually only probably reaches comfortably to about the K or even just the L so if it was shorter you might be able to reach them all but then you'd be compromising because you wouldn't have the touchpad anymore so the device is quite thin let's have a look at where the USB key wireless receiver is stored it's quite large actually unexpectedly large but it's not Bluetooth I don't know if that matters it's a 2.4 gigahertz wireless dongle there it is put that back in and then other than that I guess there's not too much else to say there is the candy board from vision tech one of the other cool things about it is it's quite a lot cheaper than most of the other touchpad keyboard combo units and it really does at the size of a remote because that's really the size that we're looking at here at the size of a remote it has great functionality and the price is pretty reasonable so I'd say it's pretty cool pretty cool indeed see if we can find a CAD Hey Hey and that laser pointer is a great little feature