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all right well I've been promising this video for a while this is the vision

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Tech candy board that I had a look at a little while back you know the one with

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the onoff switch here and the built-in

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cat toy I mean laser pointer in the end of it so compelling reason to get a

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candy board well it replaces a huge

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keyboard and mouse at a media PC so it's

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about the size actually even a little bit smaller than a media center keyboard

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and it's got all of the keyboard and mouse functionality that you can need so

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as you can see my ghetto Media Center is set up over here so we're going to do a

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quick setup guide which should be fairly straightforward basically you pull the

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little USB receiver out of the candy board like so then you walk over to the

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computer and plug it

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in the driver installs

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and uh when I did this at work it actually didn't take very long at all

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and you tell the cat to go away apparently he wants to visit me

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right now hi

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Rumble okay it's enough visiting with the cat so my device is ready to use

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which you can see there and I'm going to go ahead and demonstrate how to use it

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so I'm going to put my camera here hopefully that'll work work and then I

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guess I could even zoom in a little bit look at that that's high tech

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zooming okay so with the candy board I can move the

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mouse hopefully oh hold

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on oh not quite hold on wait for

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it okay USB input device yeah okay hopefully the battery

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is not dead or anything like that see what happens if I press the Windows

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button I might have to come back in just a moment here oh hold on what was that I

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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

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mouse around with the touchpad so I'm going to go ahead and go down to the uh

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Windows button and then I can click on it by pushing on the touchpad and then

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maybe I'd want to open up uh oh I don't

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know solitire and then I could place solitire

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from my couch with the candy board

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if I so desired okay so that's enough of just looking at the screen but I just

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want to show you sort of the ergonomics of the candy board

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itself now one thing that was a bit of a challenge for me was uh the fact that

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the left side is quite accessible like I can easily type with the entire left

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side of the keyboard using my left thumb but I found it a bit of a challenge to

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type on the right side of the keyboard using my right thumb because I can't

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quite reach over the touchpad so if you have have large hands that would

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probably be a little bit easier for you alternately you could hold it like this

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or even just put it down on the table in front of you and then you can just uh

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hunt and pack type like that and that might be the easiest thing now one of

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the other cool features of this candy

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board is uh oh where did it go I

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remember I found the

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uh I wonder what that button does I don't know it's like the explosion

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button look at it um I found it when I

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did the unboxing but now I appear to have lost it but there's a button to

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rotate the uh touch pad

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90° and um hold on I'm going to pause

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while I find that aha here it is so function and then this blue button here

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will make the touch pad not rotate hold on maybe I have to

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hold function yeah there we go so now you can

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use it more like in the shape of a remote so I'm going to go ahead and uh

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zoom in on the screen again yeah I know so now I can move the

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mouse up and down like this and it makes

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it a little bit more ergonomic to uh to hold it that

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way and there's a cat who apparently

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really wants attention he loves the candy board too as you can see Rumble is

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a big fan of the candy board now he's uh a big fan of my lap and he's sitting

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there so there you go cats love the candy

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board they will nuzzle it and bite it oh don't bite the candy

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board okay so that was pretty much all I wanted to say about it basically what it

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is is it's a convenient way to access all of your essential media functions

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with something that's a lot smaller than a standard keyboard I mean this is even

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already quite a small keyboard and it works quite well I mean the range is

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enough that I can sit on my couch over here and I can comfortably control

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everything on this screen and you've got pretty much every key that you could

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need uh there's your left and right click there's your arrow buttons as well

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as you've even got like things like page up and page down which is great for

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reading web pages so if you wanted to just it's not something that I'd really

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recommend for extensive use of your computer but if you just want to like

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open up a web browser type in a web address and then

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you know just read a couple articles on your on your media PC I mean something

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like this is great so thank you for checking out my howto video on the

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vision Tech candy board and also don't forget it is a phenomenal cat toy and

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cats love it hey Rumble what's

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this hey Cat what are you playing with

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down there go go get the go get the laser

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okay that's enough of laser planter