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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nice device designed for a media PC, January 6, 2010
This review is from: Cideko Air Keyboard Wireless Media Keyboard & Gyro Mouse for HTPC, PC, Mac & PS3
I was looking for a small keyboard and mouse device to finish my home entertainment PC. I was apprehensive as the item is very new with not much feedback. It arrived in a small box. Set up was a snap. The mouse movement was smooth although I will likely need to increase the mouse sensitivity in Windows. Range appears to be good; I use it from my couch 10 ft away and the USB dongle is in the back of my PC. The keyboard is not designed to type a large volume of text but instead, this keyboard focuses on the needs of the Media PC; For example, there are keys for volume control (including mute), video control (fast forward etc.) and one touch internet. The only keys it seems to lack are some top row keys (F1-12 etc.) In summary:
Pros-
Size: It's just over 5 inches wide. It fits entirely in one hand!
Special media keys: Seems to be designed specifically for a home media PC.
Coolness factor: This is the coolest device I've seen in a while.
Cons:
Documentation: The documentation is a bit sparse. I would like to know more about the middle mouse key.
All in all, I am very pleased so far.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
hard to point, February 15, 2010
This review is from: Cideko Air Keyboard Wireless Media Keyboard & Gyro Mouse for HTPC, PC, Mac & PS3
I bought the Cideko air remote to use my Dell Zino media PC connect to my HDTV (typing the review now, while burning a movie to my hd collection). The size of the remote is good. It's a bit larger than a deck of cards and easy to get used to, like my LG ENV3 phone. There are hot keys for surfing the web, email, my computer, search, calculator. The cool feature, in theory, is the pointing aspect. You use the remote and point with it to move around your computer, web etc. In reality, however, the HD settings make each hyperlink small and the movement of the pointing device just isn't that accurate. I sometime, quite often, find myself pointing the keyboard remote perpendicular to the tv just to get to some of the web or pc actions. It works, but just ok. If I had to do it again, it would get a trackball remote (Lenovo just came out with one) or a touchpad to move the mouse cursor.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Well Done, January 27, 2010
This review is from: Cideko Air Keyboard Wireless Media Keyboard & Gyro Mouse for HTPC, PC, Mac & PS3
Well done Cideko.. For once somebody made a product that does exactly what its supposed to.
For those of you thinking of getting this I'll tell you a little about it. First off, it comes in a little box with the keyboard, dongle, and a manual. You take it out of the box and all you have to do is put in the batteries and plug it in. No Setup, no anything. In about 10 seconds its working just as you would expect. Every key works, the mouse works, everything. Now I got this little guy because I have a computer with a projector as a screen. So a wireless keyboard and mouse sitting on the couch just doesn't work. The Cideko wasn't meant to be working full time. I just want something small that I can grab when I want to watch movies from the computer or online videos. I have a laptop for all the real work. Now, the mouse on the Cideko is easily comparable to the way a Wii controller is, not as accurate as a real mouse but very easy to use. It only takes a few seconds to get used to, and there are only a few things to learn about the mouse. The first is that you can't move it Super super slow. Because if you tilt you hand too slow, it doesn't pick up the movement. Not really a problem though. And the other thing is, since it only knows where to move the mouse by the way you move your hand.. It has no idea at what orientation the device is to the screen. But that's actually pretty neat, because you can use the edge of the screen to push and orient the pointer any way you want in relation to the unit. They also have a mouse button that you can just hit to turn on and off the mouse. I use that to center everything. All in all it's still faster to click on things then using a touchpad. The keys are very similar to using a cellphone that has a keyboard.
There are pictures online where the unit looks different that the picture above. But I just got mine a few days ago and It looks almost exactly like amazon's picture. Everything is the same as the picture, but the buttons are black with a rounded face.
This little thing is great though. Amazing for the price!
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