This particular tool from Chinavision (yes, that Chinavision), retails for a modest $US45 and combines the venerable laser pointer with a 72-key QWERTY Bluetooth keyboard. There’s also a tiny trackpad there for on the fly modifications, and the whole thing illuminates should you enjoy conducting some of your creepier presentations in a dark room.
Of course, this can also be used outside the presentation world for home theatres and whatnot, but come on—this thing was obviously bred for the quarterly financial results circuit. [Chinavision via technabob]
Peter Simpson
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 10:08 AMThat looks like the Riimote that I got off of Ebay a few months ago, handy little thing. Especially good for late night video watching where you can’t be bothered getting up or if taking the mouse with you isn’t an option for lack of surface area.
JT...
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 12:46 PMYeah I too purchased this device on ebay for 30bucks. It’s a pretty good bit of kit and good quality build which was a nice surprise. You’ll need to use two hands for typing and doing things like copy paste or moving files about (unless you do it all via right click). You will also need to change your mouse tracker speed seeing as the track pad is quite small otherwise if you have a high res screen you would be constantly swiping your thumb over the pad to move the mouse just and inch.
I wouldn’t recommend it for doing a whole lot of typing on but for my HTPC it’s really handy.
Graeme
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM“that” ChinavIsion is ChinavAsion.
James
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 2:41 PMhow does it compare to the Rii?
Aido
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 7:32 PMGot one of theses a month ago, Its brilliant! the back-lit keyboard is the best