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all right well I've been promising this video for a while this is the vision tech candy board that I had a look at a little while back you know the one with the on/off switch here and the built-in cat toy I mean laser pointer in the end of it so compelling reason to get a candy board well it replaces a huge keyboard and mouse at a media PC so it's about the size actually even a little bit smaller than a media center keyboard and it's got all of the keyboard and mouse functionality that you can need so as you can see my ghetto media center is set up over here so we're gonna do a quick set-up guide which should be fairly straightforward basically you pulled the little USB receiver out of the candy board like so then you walk over to the computer and plug it in the driver installs and when I did this at work and actually didn't take very long at all and you tell the cat to go away apparently he wants to visit me right now I ramble okay it's enough visiting with the cat so my device is ready to use which you can see there and I'm gonna go ahead and demonstrate how to use it so I'm going to put my camera that'll work and then I guess I can zoom in a little bit okay so with the candy board I can move the mouse oh well not quite hold on wait for it okay a USB input device yeah okay hopefully the battery's not dead or anything like that so what happens if I press the windows button I might have to come back in just a moment here oh well don't know that I saw another night yeah there we go okay so the green light went on on the candy board and now I can actually move the mouse around with the touchpad so I'm gonna go and go down to the windows button and then I can click on it by pushing on the touchpad and then maybe I'd want to open up oh I don't know solitaire and then I could play solitaire from my couch with the candy board if I so desired okay so that's enough of just looking at the screen but I just want to show you sort of the ergonomics of the candy board itself now one thing that was a bit of a challenge for me was the fact that the left side is quite accessible like I can easily type with the entire left side of the keyboard using my left thumb but I found it a bit of a challenge to type on the right side of the keyboard using my right thumb because I can't quite reach over the touchpad so if you have large hands I would probably be a little bit easier for you alternately you could hold it like this or even just put it down on the table in front of you and then you can just hunt and pack it type like that and that might be the easiest thing now one of the other cool features of this candy board is oh where did it go I remember I found the Oh wonder what that button does I don't know it's like the explosion button did it I found it when I did the unboxing but now I appear to have lost it but there's a button to rotate the touchpad 90 degrees and well I'm going to pause well I find that hi here it is so function and then this blue button here will make the touchpad not rotate hold on if you have to hold function yeah there we go so now you can use it more like in the shape of a remote so I'm gonna go ahead and zoom in on the screen again yeah I know so now I can move the mouse up and down like this and it makes it a little bit more ergonomic too to hold it that way and there's a cat who apparently really wants attention he loves the candy board too as you can see ramble is a big fan of the candy board now he's a big fan my lap he's sitting there so there you go cats love the candy board they will nuzzle it and bite it don't like the candy board okay so that was pretty much all I wanted to say about it basically what it is is it's a convenient way to access all of your essential media functions with something that's a lot smaller than a standard keyboard I mean this is even already quite a small keyboard and it works quite well I mean the range is enough that I can sit on my couch over here and I can comfortably control everything on the screen and you've got pretty much every key that you could need there's your left and right click there's your arrow buttons as well as you've even got like things like page up and page down which is great for reading webpages so if you wanted to just it's not something that I'd really recommend for extensive use of your computer but if you just want to like open up a web browser type in a web address and then you know just read a couple articles on your on your media PC I mean something like this is great so thank you for checking out my how-to video on the vision tech candy board and also don't forget it is a phenomenal cat toy and cats love it okay Rumble what's this hey cat what are you playing this down there go go get that go get the laser okay that's enough laser pointer