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welcome to my unboxing of the AO KB 178

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RT mini thumb keyboard so as you guys

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may or may not know if you've watched a few of my videos I'm kind of a fan of

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keyboards and mice and pointing devices that make life easier with a media PC

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because I'm one of the seven people in the world who actually has one so

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actually no there's more than seven but you know uh so so let's have a look at

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this guy compact form factor designed specifically for home theater PCS Easy

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navigation using the built-in Optical track ball now that's cool eight

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dedicated multimedia hot Keys including all the ones you can see here you can

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read them if you really care 2.4 GHz RF technology provides up to 30 ft in

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wireless range that's not bad because I have actually run into products that I

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haven't been able to get to work properly from the couch which is ridiculous okay so rechargeable

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batteries included awesome scissor key caps architecture makes typing silent

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stable and comfortable uh scissor keys are not necessarily the most durable but

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as they pointed out they are very quiet so there's that going for it compatible

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with Windows 7 comes with a mini USB dongle built-in track ball with left-handed Mouse buttons and let's open

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this bad boy up oh it's actually smaller than I thought when I saw the size of

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the box I thought I was going to be like oh how am I going to reach the middle keys but it's actually much much smaller

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than that so I can reach the middle Keys just fine cool okay so here we go oh oh

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no way it comes with actual rechargeable

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nickel metal hydride batteries look at

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that like it you know how normally when something says comes with rechargeable

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battery I was even thinking I was like oh well what about when the battery runs

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out what am I going to do with like some proprietary internal battery keyboard

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I'm not going to be able to use my computer no way comes with rechargeable

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aaa's bam I just got bammed by AIO

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because they were all like yeah we thought of that huh cool okay it comes

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with wow they weren't kidding when they said I like mini USB receiver they get

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that stuck in the port no you couldn't but okay and then there's your charging

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cable so that's pretty cool so you plug that into one of your USB ports you plug

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that into one of your other USB ports you throw these guys into the keyboard

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itself so let's go ahead and do that now okay you got your pairing button you got

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your onoff button you can turn it off if you don't want to waste your battery

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uh let's go ahead and uh see if we can

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get that in there y okay so there it is

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so let's have a look at what we think of the overall the overall build of this

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guy so can we type on it with our fingers not really okay so when they

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call it a thumb keyboard they really do mean it the space bar even with my smallish hands so guys bear in mind my

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hands are not very big here Slick's hand for for context see that's the size of

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my hand compared to Slick's hand so there see okay so remember that so even

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with my small hands I can easily reach the space bar with both with both hands

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okay so my home row keys are where are they yeah they're here and here right

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yeah my home row keys are not quite centered it's a bit of a pet peeve for

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me personally for thumb keyboards I wish it was a little bit over here but

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they're not as far off as the one that I'm using now which really bugs me

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because it's like not even close it's like over here like something stupid like that

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um okay so home R keys are fairly easy to reach as well I can reach Escape I

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can reach backspace very easily enter is here one shift key I wouldn't have

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minded seeing two shift Keys it would have been better if there's one over here but I can see why they made that

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change because they had to put in the arrow keys they had to put them

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somewhere and I don't really see what other options they have because what

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else is cool about this is check this out it has almost everything it's got your caps lock it's got does it have a

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no it doesn't have a number pad but it's got your f8 keys are all built in with a

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function key it's got like dedicated bracket keys so you can type almost

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anything with this thing without any challenges you've also got a battery

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life indicator and uh something about

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rechargeable batteries I don't know what that would actually indicate but then

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you've got a bunch of media buttons as well and here are your left and right

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click button so this is an optical track ball let's find out how well it works so

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here let's just like plug this in let's see how quickly we can get it going out

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of the box okay so plug the thing into the

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thing make sure my hold on don't point at the computer yet I need to make sure

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that I don't have anything inappropriate up on my screen okay there we're good

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and installing device driver USB composite device RF dongle I'm going

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to stand over here so that I'm kind of under the light so you guys can see the keyboard somewhat searching Windows

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update I'm going to press the pairing thing now to see if that does anything

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oh it's kind of recessed it's kind of oh it's kind of tough to press actually oh

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yeah you can when in doubt just use a

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knife okay so it claims it's ready to

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use on the computer side anyway so let's press

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the uh home button what's the home button going to do okay maybe I should

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actually open something and try to type let's see if it's working yet oh

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not yet okay oh oh oh I didn't turn it

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on ha okay let's bring back the knife

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see this is the kind of stuff that goes on off camera sometimes so I'm being

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very brave when I actually work on things on camera with you people because

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as you can clearly see I'm not actually that good at using computer stuff there

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we go it's working okay so let's type

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like uh

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hello world hey

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hey oh did I accidentally hit the oh I did shoot I accidentally hit the eye

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it's okay can backspace hello world very

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usable so if you just want to Google something or whatever else then uh

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that's cool and let's oh let's try the track ball okay hey that's actually not

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that hard to use check this out so I'm going to go and I'm going to save this

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particular document and I'm going to put it in my Starcraft 2 folder because that

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makes a lot of sense let's go ahead and save it there this is very very usable

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cool okay so that's the AO thumb keyboard thank you for checking out my

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videos of things that actually include rechargeable AAA batteries holy crap

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I've never seen this before