{"id":2658,"date":"2013-02-28T22:06:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2013-02-28T22:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:06:55","slug":"emagine-mini-wireless-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/02\/28\/emagine-mini-wireless-keyboard","title":{"rendered":"EMAGINE mini wireless keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"EMAGINE mini wireless keyboard by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8516688685\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8230\/8516688685_f20cc1f742_n.jpg?resize=320%2C239\" alt=\"EMAGINE mini wireless keyboard\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>I was at the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emagine.my\/\">EMAGINE<\/a> yesterday, and all of us walked away with a door gift: an EMAGINE mini wireless keyboard. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I first saw it I thought it would be a Bluetooth wireless keyboard (potentially handy for a tablet). Sadly, I notice that you need to connect it via USB. It works like a clicker.<\/p>\n<p>Its vendor is\u00a0Sonix Technology Co., Ltd. The manual is clearly written in China (words like &#8220;Accissories&#8221;). It&#8217;s been around for quite some time (testing on Fedora 7, Ubuntu 8.10, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 2.4GHz wireless mini QWERTY keyboard, comes with a touch pad as well (so you can mouse around).<\/p>\n<p>Plug it into Linux or Mac OS X and it &#8220;just works&#8221;, without drivers. You end up having to power the device on\/off. It comes with its own USB-based charger (no wall-plug), so I presume you&#8217;re meant to charge it\/dock it at the EMAGINE device itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emagine.my\/what-is-emagine\/\">package contents<\/a> though, it suggests you only get a remote, not this keyboard. Beta testers (I&#8217;m not one) claimed that they already had a keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that the keyboard is made for many regular hands. I consider my hands no larger than the average, and find it quite difficult (not impossible, just strained) to type with two thumbs as it is a little too wide, thanks to the touch pad. Your mileage may vary. Then again, how many of you want to do serious keyboarding in front of your TV?<\/p>\n<p>Next up, some thoughts on the EMAGINE (based largely on tweets from last night). I do plan to order one to give it a twirl.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the launch of EMAGINE yesterday, and all of us walked away with a door gift: an EMAGINE mini wireless keyboard. \u00a0 When I first saw it I thought it would be a Bluetooth wireless keyboard (potentially handy for a tablet). Sadly, I notice that you need to connect it via USB. 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