Welcome to another digitallifestyle.com video show. On this video, we’ll be looking at the Air Mouse GO Plus, this is from Gyration, this is motion detecting mouse. Mainly used, I guess this is aimed for doing props presentations and that kind of thing or just the mouse, but, also good for home theater use, because you can operate Windows with the mouse and you get in your big screen TV and you don’t need a flat surface for it.
So, what I’ll going to do is I’m going to opening the box, see what it has got inside it, and then I’m going to connect it up to a laptop which is connected to my TV and we’ll see how I can operate it. So, first thing here, let’s have a look in the box.
Included in the box, we have a USB receiver for the mouse, which you kind of power up through the connect button. We have a charging station, and then the actual mouse itself. It’s got an optical sensor. You can actually use it as a normal desktop mouse. We’ve got two buttons, three additional buttons, this clicking scroll wheel, and this extra gyration button which I’ll show you in a minute. So, also in the box included is charger and there are rechargeable batteries in this which works the charger. So you get the cradle like that, that just fits on there like that, and your mouse is charging up, if you want to use it, pick it up wherever you go.
Also included in the box are some CDs with drivers and things like that. I tested this before I didn’t need the driver because it worked anyway. But I think the Gyration software gives us some extra features with the remote control, so we’ve got a user guide and the installation CD.
So first we’re going to do is we connect it up without any drivers and just see how it operates out of the box and then we’ll have a look at the drivers. Okay, so, I got my laptop hooked to the TV, I got the remote, I’m going to stand out of the way, and you pull this trigger here. As you pull this trigger it activates the mouse and then you can see, actually you see that the pointer there. I can go into—so what you do, you hold down the trigger for it to enable to move, if you don’t have the trigger held down it doesn’t move. So hold down the trigger and then you can just click with the mouse button. So as far as Windows is concerned it’s like a normal mouse and I can right click and so on.
So, for a home theater, you can seat on the sofa, you can use this machine, use this mouse no problem at all. You don’t need to flat surface. You don’t need a lot to be moving either, if I can show you—you see there’s not a huge amount of movement that you need for that to work. So out of the box, we just got this working no drivers installed you can use this and of course ther’s nothing to stop me—usually in Windows Media Center. So I just slipped a CD and we’ll now see what these tools enable us to do.
Now whenever I use Gyration buttons—this is it, so I can customize that, these extra buttons which I mentioned here I can customize those, but there are also swipes. So it have got shake gestures, we got up and down, just shake like that, shake like that, and we’ve got—it looks like if you hold down this—it looks like if you hold down this button here and then go—so this center button here is the trigger button. So we hold that down and go that way its mail, that’s your PowerPoint and you can customize it.
So the output is that one, so other options we’ve got on here, so we got Windows options media center, so I think what we can do is—I think we can drag that inside there and play button can go up and down, let’s do pause, left to right, okay. So let’s see what that does now. So if I do the center button—log media center and then if I go—I’m not sure what’s on this machine let’s have a look. So let’s load a track. So I’ve played some music and I think we set you up. So if I shake it from left to right, it should pause it. If I shake it up and down—let me show you that on the screen. So hold down the trigger button, that pauses it, hold down that trigger button, there we go. So that kind of a majestic control system, and see we could’ve—other options on this navigation button. So you got home, and I could’ve set any of these.
I quite like the—I seem to have got in to some highlighting mode, so anything if you have presentation and need highlighting. I do like this pause and G mode. Well, it’s a bit, a little bit geeky, but it’s probably not a bad choice. Let’s have a quick look what else can we do with this. We’ve got hot spots. We’ve got other events we can create, so it’s pretty rich really. We can have internet options, so I kind of got the swipe set for the music, but we could have swipe set for the back button so that when you swipe it goes back. Internet Explorer, you can see, it’s actually flashing down here. So let’s click on one page okay. And then, left to right, and then it goes back.
So you can see with this it’s a handy little remote. I do like the play and the pause option and shaking. But really the main thing it is a proper mouse, you know, it’s got a proper optical sensor on it on there. So you can use it as a desktop mouse. Then you can pick it up, you got the trigger and then you got the movement the mouse move with it. So, if its home theater PC and you don’t have flat surface for mouse this is ideal, great to do presentation—PowerPoint presentation. It looks pretty flashy.
So that’s the Air Mouse GO Plus from Gyration motion sensor. All the details, prices, things like that, link in the show notes. Thanks for watching this video and I’ll see on the next video at digitallifestyle.com.
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