What's a good usb remote for MacBook Pro 15" retina?

I don't want use the keynote remote app and need a good usb-based remote control for my presentations. Any suggestions?
thanks,
JD

Well, my Early 2008 MBP could run AHT without requiring any external stuff back in April 2008....
However, there have been reports that it gets screwed up with some upgrades, especially when Lion sets up its Recovery Mode partition. MBPs with Lion-from-factory do run AHT without requiring anything else (which of course you do not have from that cat on forward).
Can't say much about the snowy cat since it was a lost species to me. My old Leopard MBP died horribly and had to jump directly to Lion without further ado.

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http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=200
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(1) Get community thoughts around using alternative and complimentary mousing approaches with MacBooks
(2) To share a current and searchable set of resources for those interested in leveraging a best-of-both-worlds approach for using a non-Apple Trackpoint Keyboard with an Apple MacBook.
(3) To level-set the fact that a Thinkpad Trackpoint USB Keyboard works with MacBooks automatically and instantly out-of-the-box.
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