WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:06.720 right here. This is the intended usage model of this product. This is the 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:12.160 Phantom lap board. I'm sitting on a couch and I have the Phantom lap board 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:16.320 where it belongs on my lap. So, it is no longer a Phantom, although it does say 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:20.480 Phantom on the box because it finally exists. It's finally released. I have a 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:25.600 physical lapboard now. We've been talking about this product for ages, but 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:31.439 here it is. So, this is a wireless laser mouse and keyboard combo with a built-in 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:34.960 sort of mouse pad surface. The keyboard swivels around. It's got all these great 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:39.120 features, but I think probably the best thing to do is take a quick look at the 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:42.160 box here and then get it open so we can have a look at it. So, here we've got 00:00:40.559 --> 00:00:47.360 the package contents, which I'm sure you're fully capable of reading. On the 00:00:44.559 --> 00:00:52.640 back, we've got some outlines of the media functions that it has. So, it has 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:55.039 13 media keys, 10 of which are like um 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:59.359 FN something else keys. So, they've got the the blue text on them and then three 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:03.440 dedicated media keys. Here we've got another general outline of the overall 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:07.520 specs. So, remember this is well, not remember, I haven't said it yet, but the 00:01:05.119 --> 00:01:12.159 intended use of this keyboard is from the couch. So, they want you to be able 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:17.759 to game, operate the internet, do whatever it is you do on a computer with 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:20.479 your media PC from the comfort of the 00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:24.720 couch. So, we've had we actually had a look at the Vision Tech Candy Board 00:01:22.240 --> 00:01:30.240 recently, and my overall impressions of that was this is pretty cool, but if I 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:36.640 were actually going to like sit on sit on the couch and browse the internet, it 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:39.040 wouldn't really be suitable. So, this is 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:44.079 meant to be the sort of in between having a dedicated uh keyboard device 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:47.840 that is handheld and using like a regular keyboard and mouse and operating 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:50.479 the mouse on the couch beside you. So, here, let's have a let's have a look at 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:54.079 the laser mouse. What the cameraman was trying to do. So, we've got a glossy 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:58.159 white finish on here. There's a black version as well. We've got a scroll 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:01.840 wheel, two buttons, no back and forward buttons. I wouldn't have minded seeing 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:07.920 that, but maybe in Rev 2. On the bottom, we've got a power on and power off 00:02:03.759 --> 00:02:10.479 switch, as well as a battery. 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:16.480 Oh, I'm not sure how that works. Hold on. There's probably a way to do this. 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:20.160 That's cleverer than I am. I bet you push this in and then slide it 00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:23.840 or something. Okay. Well, we'll figure out the battery later. There's a binding 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:28.000 key and that's about it. You can see the laser sensors right there. So, there's 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:32.720 the mouse and then the keyboard. This is the really innovative piece because the 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:37.120 reality of it is you could kind of use it with any 00:02:34.720 --> 00:02:42.000 wireless mouse that you so desire because here I'm going to go ahead and 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:46.480 move the box. They both operate with AA batteries and they estimate about a 4 00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:51.840 month lifetime for the batteries. Here is how it works. I actually don't know 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:55.360 how it works yet, but okay, there we go. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:57.440 So, the lap board actually sits like 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:00.879 this. And then if you're left-handed, you can operate the mouse on this 00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:04.239 surface right here. So, I'm going to go ahead and put it down the way that it's 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:08.640 intended to be used. So, if I'm left-handed, it works like this. But get 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:13.360 get this. Wait, there's more. There's more. Okay. So, you actually can take 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:16.800 the lap board and turn it at any angle you like, 00:03:15.200 --> 00:03:20.800 including all the way the other way around. So, now you can hold it like 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:24.480 this. So, you can type, which is actually reasonably comfortable, and the 00:03:22.640 --> 00:03:27.680 keys feel all right. I really like the keyboard layout on this thing. I cheated 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:32.080 a little bit before I did the unboxing, but they haven't done anything stupid. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.200 Everyone always does something stupid on a keyboard. It's like, "This keyboard 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:38.879 would be great except it's got a short backspace." Or, "This keyboard would be 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:43.200 great except it has a short shift key." This keyboard is just great. It's 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:48.080 compact. It has all the keys that you really need, including dedicated arrow 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:52.799 keys. Yes, thank you. It's designed for internet browsing. You've got home, end, 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:56.239 page up, page down, dedicated keys. So, it's got everything you need to 00:03:54.080 --> 00:04:00.239 comfortably browse the internet. The tactile response is reasonably good. You 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:03.599 got long shift keys that are exactly where they belong. long backspace key, 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:07.680 long enter key. I mean, they got everything right. I don't think I've 00:04:05.519 --> 00:04:10.959 seen a keyboard that's gotten everything right in terms of a standard layout. And 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:16.560 I mean, that's the funny thing is standard layout. It's supposed to be standard. It's supposed to be easy. 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:20.320 Anyway, here's your media keys. So, I'm not sure exactly what all of these do, 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:24.000 although I can cheat a little bit and I can pull out the box and we can find 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:28.320 out. So, F1 is going to launch media center. Okay, that's pretty cool. F2 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:33.040 launches my music and then my photos, my videos, my TV. Uh you can play back a 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:38.240 DVD with a dedicated media key. So it's all about media and games. So this laser 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:43.680 mouse Phantom is saying is perfectly capable of gaming. You can see the mousing surface, the usable size of it 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:47.280 is actually quite large. Like I can go all the way up and down here. I can go 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:51.840 all the way side to side until my knuckle brushes the bottom of the lap board. And you can see they haven't 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:55.680 cheaped out on the surface. So even though the edge, you can see the edge of 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.960 the mousing surface is here. They've used the same material here. So, you can 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:02.639 actually cheat a little bit if you want to go over a bit further. Mind you, I 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:07.120 guess you'd run into that USB dongle pretty quick unless you're really kind 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:12.000 of uh creative about it. So, there's the USB dongle that's also included. So, 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:16.720 that's a 2.4 GHz. So, you can see it's a Phantom Model 3000. So, that's pretty 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:20.400 cool. Plug that into your computer and then press uh presumably the bind key on 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:23.360 the mouse. And then I don't know if there's a bind key on the keyboard. We 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:28.080 haven't flipped it over yet. So, here on the bottom, oh, okay, this is neat. So, 00:05:24.960 --> 00:05:29.680 you've got two rubber bars all along the 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:32.800 bottom of the Phantom lap board. So, that's going to keep it in place while 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:36.000 you're frantically gaming or less frantically doing something else. You 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:38.960 can see it's actually quite difficult to slip. You can't see that, but I'm 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:42.880 telling you that it's actually quite difficult to move it around once it's 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:46.320 positioned on your lap. Now, the overall feel of the keyboard is it does have a 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:52.720 little bit of flex. You're not going to get around that. I mean, you they're creating a hinge device that is 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:56.479 basically, you know, just using an ARM down here to support the whole keyboard. 00:05:54.720 --> 00:06:00.720 But as long as you're not mashing on your keyboard, you're going to be able 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:04.319 to use it quite comfortably. Okay. So, you can see once I put a little bit of 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:08.160 weight on it and I start typing, it doesn't actually move much even when I'm 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:12.319 depressing the keys. So, it does not interfere with the typing process. Take 00:06:09.919 --> 00:06:17.360 my hand off. Use this. And let's have a look at the mechanism itself. So, I 00:06:15.919 --> 00:06:21.280 mean, that's going to sort of be a make or break point for something like this. 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:27.120 So, I don't know how Oh. Oh, there we go. Oh, okay. I get it. So, this piece 00:06:23.520 --> 00:06:29.840 right here when you lift it up, see that 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:34.960 lock in place. So, then to lower the lap board, you just pull No, push it in and 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:40.800 lower it down. And then you can use the lap board without the mouse 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:42.000 should you so desire. And then this I 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:47.680 don't know what this piece does, but Okay, here. Let's lift it up again. So, it only has one setting, which honestly, 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:50.639 I don't think that's really very bothersome, but maybe some people 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:55.199 wouldn't like that. It's only got the one setting, but the fact that you've 00:06:52.400 --> 00:06:58.720 got this adjustability, although I'm not sure what some of these settings are 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:03.199 actually for, like maybe if you wanted to sort of hold it at a bit of an angle 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:06.479 like this, and then you have maybe have like kind of a longer right ARM and you 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:10.720 want to hold it over here. I don't know. Mostly I can see people using it like 00:07:08.479 --> 00:07:16.000 this or in the left-handed configuration where they turn it around and then use 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:17.360 it on the other side. But uh yeah, I 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.479 guess I said pretty much all I want to say about it. This looks pretty cool. I 00:07:19.039 --> 00:07:24.880 can't wait to try it out. I'll be doing a a more full review once I find out, 00:07:23.440 --> 00:07:29.280 well, how's the wireless signal strength? How comfortable is it to 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:33.840 actually sit on the couch and browse the internet or play some games? And uh 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:40.039 overall, my impressions are quite solid. Um, 00:07:35.840 --> 00:07:40.039 yeah, this looks pretty cool actually.