A word of warning – don’t buy keyboard/mouse products from Gyration. They make a line of radio frequency keyboards and mice with 30-100 foot ranges depending on the model. I bought one to work with my living room home theater pc and man what a piece of crap. For $100, I got a keyboard that would only intermittently connect to the base station and a mouse that for the first 2 days completely refused to work. The mouse did eventually start working automagically one morning, and I did get the keyboard to finally connect to its base station, but even when it was connected and 3 inches from the base, it would miss literally 1/3 of the key presses. The thing was completely useless. Fortunately Staples let me exhange it for a Logitech. It doesn’t have anywhere near the supposed range of the Gyration, but the thing actually worked right out of the box.

Subsequent research on various htpc forums has shown me that while some folks are very happy with their Gyration products, there are also a lot of folks like me who have had or are having nothing but problems with their products. My advice? Stay far away.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to score an IBM versapoint or Slitek Airboard off of ebay. They’re cult favorites so it’s pretty competitive bidding on them, though it does look like I will be able to get one for less than I initially paid for the Gyration.