{"video_id":"RqjgItzSRWU","title":"Visiontek Candyboard Mini HTPC Touchpad Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":315,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":5.68,"text":"this is a product I'm actually quite excited to have a look at this is the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.639,"end_s":10.559,"text":"vision Tech candy board it's a wireless Mini keyboard with a built-in touchpad","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.8,"end_s":15.36,"text":"so one of the things that they're saying is so cool about this is that the fact","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.759,"end_s":19.119,"text":"that is the fact that the touchpad is capable of being used in both a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.8,"end_s":22.32,"text":"horizontal or a vertical position and also that the quality of the touchpad 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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 uh lame touchpad integrated keyboard units that uh just use 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's a USB input for charging the unit and it works with Windows PS3 Xbox 360 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 Markham and not really thinking about it before uh taking my keys I left my knife on the keys and obviously that got confiscated by airport security um 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 a palm palm sized keyboard okay let's just have a look look at what accessories are included if any and then we'll move on from there so we have a USB cable uh for charging the device then we have the users manual turn off this device in the hospital attention to do not operate this device while driving okay that's good these are good safety precautions they're giving us here all right well here's a little uh 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 so that's the first thing I want to try let's flip the switch to on and then try the laser pointer ha it has a laser pointer cool okay so you can oh here here here's an idea what's that they love chasing the laser pointer that's rocket 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 did 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 uh 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 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 uh which way it's being used okay so function keys okay function 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 wait what oh no this is the 90° flip aha there's the start key the Windows key okay so that's how you flip the touchpad to uh to operate it this way okay that's cool power switch here's your RF communication indicator as well as your battery indicator and uh there's your shift or function not sure which one it is indicator so you have a caps log key tab Escape shift you've got basically a full keyboard on here let's see how easily you can actually type on it so if I was want to go to www.nc.com I mean that's really what this is for it's just like entering a web address for your media PC like you're not going to use it a ton but um 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 uh wireless receiver is stored it's quite large actually uh unexpectedly large but uh it's not Bluetooth so I don't know if that matters it's a 2.4 GHz wireless dongle there it is so we can 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 uh 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 mg let's see if we can find a cat hey hey and that laser pointer is a great little feature"}