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 onoff 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 going to do a
quick setup guide which should be fairly straightforward basically you pull 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 uh when I did this at work it actually didn't take very long at all
and you tell the cat to go away apparently he wants to visit me
right now hi
Rumble okay it's enough visiting with the cat so my device is ready to use
which you can see there and I'm going to go ahead and demonstrate how to use it
so I'm going to put my camera here hopefully that'll work work and then I
guess I could even zoom in a little bit look at that that's high tech
zooming okay so with the candy board I can move the
mouse hopefully oh hold
on oh not quite hold on wait for
it okay USB input device yeah okay hopefully the battery
is not dead or anything like that see what happens if I press the Windows
button I might have to come back in just a moment here oh hold on what was that I
saw another light 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 going to go ahead and go down to the uh
Windows button and then I can click on it by pushing on the touchpad and then
maybe I'd want to open up uh oh I don't
know solitire and then I could place solitire
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 uh 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 have large hands that 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 uh
hunt and pack type like that and that might be the easiest thing now one of
the other cool features of this candy
board is uh oh where did it go I
remember I found the
uh I wonder what that button does I don't know it's like the explosion
button look at it um I found it when I
did the unboxing but now I appear to have lost it but there's a button to
rotate the uh touch pad
90° and um hold on I'm going to pause
while I find that aha here it is so function and then this blue button here
will make the touch pad not rotate hold on maybe I 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 going to go ahead and uh
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 to uh 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 Rumble is
a big fan of the candy board now he's uh a big fan of my lap and he's sitting
there so there you go cats love the candy
board they will nuzzle it and bite it oh don't bite 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 this screen and you've got pretty much every key that you could
need uh 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 web pages 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 howto video on the
vision Tech candy board and also don't forget it is a phenomenal cat toy and
cats love it hey Rumble what's
this hey Cat what are you playing with
down there go go get the go get the laser
okay that's enough of laser planter