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New Joystick Style Ergo Mouse

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-else-has-a-sore-wrist dept.

Mr_Perl writes "For those of us who love to use a mouse to play games, except for the wrist pain after too much of it, 3M has come up with a joystick-mouse type thing that is in my opinion very comfortable to use." I'd love to try one of these out. Not available yet tho. update my bad, it is out. Now I gotta find one.

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  1. This is'nt really new by Chainsaw · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anir has been manufacturing these for a while.
    http://www.animax.no/anirmousepro.html

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  2. I've used one! by Sulka · · Score: 4, Informative

    And didn't like it at all! The problem is the weight of the hand rests on top of the mouse. In order to move it even on a good mousepad, you need to apply a lot of force. This makes precision clicking much harder to do than with the usual wrist-action mouse. Several other people at the same company tried it too and didn't like it.

    And that's so old tech too, it was available last year. :P

    The best mouse wristwise that I've found is the tiny small model from Logitech.

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