As you may have noticed recently, Overclockers Tech has been expanding its reviews to include a more diverse scope of hardware. Today we continue that effort with a look at the Genius Air Mouse from KYE Corporation. Based in Taiwan, KYE Corporation provides an extensive line of consumer electronics that range from computer peripherals, mobile devices, gaming accessories, and everything in between.

The Genius Air Mouse is claimed to be the World’s First ring style touch cursor. We’ll take a look at this extremely unique device, and give you a chance to see it up close

About Genius (KYE Corporation)

Create Infinite Value With a Magic Touch

Our business model, the conglomeration of OBM and OEM is run very effectively, which not only created unprecedented sales revenue growth for five continuous years for KYE but also created tremendous profit to our customers and shareholders. KYE expects to continually grow in the coming future.

Competition is everywhere in the IT industry. To cope with this challenge, KYE will keep enhancing its core technology not only in Pointing Devices, Digital Imaging and Gaming products for PC, but also developing more accessories and components for mobile phones.

KYE has envisioned this trend, and will “Create Infinite Value with a Magic Touch”. We believe this can be accomplished through the Magic Touch of KYE products, which can bring convenience, efficiency, and entertainment to all of us. We expect this trend will enable us to reach double-digit sales growth in the next ten years.

Here is the list of specifications and features as provided by the Genius Website

Packaging

The Genius Ring Style controller comes in a hard plastic shell that is easily opened by removing three pieces of tape located on both sides and the bottom.

One inside you will find the following items:

• Ring Presenter
• USB Pico receiver
• CD driver
• Micro USB rechargeable cable
• Pouch
• Multi-language user manual

Here are some close up pictures showing the different sides of the Genius Ring Presenter. The top area is where you will spend your time operating the device. It has the touch control panel, and the four buttons needed to control the mouse and laser functions. The right side has a three position switch to set the Ring Presenter in mouse mode , presenter mode, or to power it off. The rear side of the Ring Presenter has the charging port and the laser pointer.

As far as actually using the device, I can tell you when you use it for the first time it does feel a little awkward. One you spend some time with the Ring Presenter, it almost becomes second nature when using it. Keeping the unit charged up is very easy with the included USB charging cable, and the battery life is more than adequate.

There is a very informative page on Genius’s web site that you can visit for very detailed usage capabilities. Here is a link at the Genius Global Site.

Genius has also provided two nice videos on how this Ring Presenter actually works. You can view both of these below.

As you can see by the two videos above, seamless integration with Power Point and Windows makes this Ring Presenter stand above similar devices which only offer one or two controlling elements. If you are an on-the-go business professional this is a must have in your travel gear.

Home users that have a Home Theater PC, or just enjoy watching movies on the computer will find the Ring Presenter very handy. Imagine sitting on your couch several feet away from your computer or HTPC and being able to control the action. I tried it out on Windows Media Center and had the ability to not only start WMC, but navigate my way to watching TV and a DVD movie……. SWEET!

While the main thrust for the Genius Ring Style Touch Cursor Controller is geared toward the business professional, don’t let that fool you. The home user will find it a very handy gadget as well for using their PC and HTPC. The device is relatively easy to understand and the included instructions are well written. Additionally, the driver software allows you to customize the feel and sensitivity of the Ring Presenter to your liking as well.

For around $60.00 USD, some may find that a little expensive. However, if you are like me and don’t mind spending the money as long as a product does what it claims to do, then you will not be disappointed with this device from Genius.

Kudos to Genius for coming up with a very unique and useful product here, well deserving of our Gold Award!

Dino DeCesari (Lvcoyote)

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