Google's new high-end Android tablet, the Pixel C, just hit the market, and at $499 for a 32GB device, its price is on par with Samsung tablets and the iPad Air 2. So what makes the Pixel C so special? The metal build, slide-and-snap keyboard, USB-C connector and Nvidia Tegra X1 processor are all very unusual among consumer tablets, our editor-in-chief Dan Costa found in his hands on with the Pixel C. But those aren't the only things that make the device stand out.

1. You can stick it to the fridge.
To work with its keyboard, the Pixel C is festooned with magnets. Ars Technica's Ron Amadeo found that it sticks to the front of your fridge, or any other metal surface in your house. Presumably, you could also use it to degauss video tapes, after which you would need to re-enact the movies on the tapes with your madcap neighborhood pals before returning them to the store.

2. The keyboard opens and closes very ... oddly.
The Pixel C's slide-and-snap keyboard isn't like any other tablet accessory keyboard we've tested. Engadget's Devindra Hardawar likened it to opening a pistachio. Ed Baig at USA Today has a hilarious video where he pranks his co-workers by getting them to try to put the keyboard together; its starts about a minute in.

3. There's an experimental dual-window mode.
Samsung tablets have had dual-window mode for several years now, as shown above. Apple tablets just got it this year. Microsoft tablets can have as many windows as you darn well please. Google's lagging behind, but the company just introduced an experimental dual-window mode with Android Marshmallow. Splitting the screen helps maximize the Pixel C because many Android apps prefer to work in portrait mode. This post on XDA Developers shows you how to turn on the developer options you need to enable two windows, although the mode is still very unstable.

4. The keyboard offers lots of shortcuts.
Google's support pages for the Pixel C show a whole lot of keyboard shortcuts for the most-used Google apps. For instance, if you have eight Chrome tabs open, you can flip between them using control-1 through control-8. Google promises there are some secret, hidden shortcuts as well, which will probably come out on Reddit over the next few weeks.

5. You can knock to show the battery level.
The light bar on the back of the tablet shows your battery level if you knock on it. Each segment of the bar is worth about 25 percent of battery. It works when the tablet is closed with the keyboard cover on, so you can see if it needs charging.

Check back soon for more details on the new Pixel C, or just peruse our list of the 10 best tablets of 2015.