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This tiny spaceman helps Windows laptops and iPads play better together.

15 years ago, j5create made a cable that magically let you drag and drop between PCs and Macs. Now, it’s got a $70 USB-C astronaut dongle that wirelessly links Windows PCs with iPads here at CES. You can send files, mirror displays, and beam your mouse and keyboard. I can’t vouch for latency yet — Wi-Fi reliability at CES is kind of crap.

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<em>Cute, right? </em>
<em>And small. </em>
<em>Technically, the spaceman is mostly for show — it houses a USB-A dongle.</em>
<em>I took this selfie on the iPad, and now I’m using the share screen to beam it via j5create’s app.</em>
<em>Now here it is on the Windows desktop.</em>
<em>You can mirror both directions; on Windows, your iPad mirror appears in.a window.</em>
<em>The packaging.</em>
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Cute, right?
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