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Or the best thing he could do get rid of the wrist rest and start moving the mouse with his shoulder instead with little movement in his elbow. Wrist rests are horrible as people tend to "rest" their wrists there which makes the wrist immobile thus aggravating the RSI.

Back on subject, the first trackpad I saw wasn't on a laptop it was the Cirque Trackpad which should help.
http://www.safecomputing.com/cirque_easycat_trackp ad.html

Where'd you look? Google provided about 656,000 results.

These trackpads have been pretty openly available for the past many years. Just in case google is down, here's a direct link to a seller.

Alphabetical order keyborad their is a nice alphabetical keyboard for you. I've never shopped their, but they have a $700 keyboard )... it seems like overkill to me, plus it is waayy to crowded it loks like.

Alphabetical order keyborad their is a nice alphabetical keyboard for you. I've never shopped their, but they have a $700 keyboard )... it seems like overkill to me, plus it is waayy to crowded it loks like.

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  Ring Mouse
  
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  head mice
  
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  Reflective dot tracking
  

that's 275$ not 175$

Not quite. You can get them for $189 here (sure, it's not "$175", but it's far from "$275").

Alex Bischoff

"I'm convinced my Kinesis keyboard has saved my career from RSI induced disability... it's so good I shelled out the $300 to buy one for home. OK, so it's a wierd layout that most folks can't deal with at first... but the hand strain you save is well worth the upfront training costs associated with the switchover."

I bought a Cherry split keyboard three years ago, when my RSI first hit. (The Cherry has the same layout as the Kinesis Maxim Adjustable, but doesn't seem to be available any more.) Since then, I believe my wrists have actually healed to some degree. I am *very* happy with it. (To be fair, I must mention that I started using a Cirque touchpad instead of a mouse at the same time.)

I disagree about the keyboard layout being difficult to get used to. (Perhaps that's true for folks who don't touch type.) The only two differences in layout are the split down the middle, and the insert/delete/home key group rearrangement. In the case of the latter, I think the rearrangement is very reasonable, and easy enough to adjust to.

I ordered the same model from Safe Computing for $236.25.

Safe Computing's site presents the various models with the same image and description (no info on the differences), so you should know the model you want in advance.