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Mouse Not Required?

Posted by Cliff on from the occupational-and-lifestyle-hazards dept.

Chromose asks: "Being a system administrator by day, and coder/artist/gamer by night, my hands and wrists get their fair share of exercise around the clock. I've had lumps on the back of my hands off and on for a couple years now and just recently discovered they are ganglion cysts. And although pain and stress has been minimum up to now, I worry of what continuing everyday keyboard and mouse stress will lead to. Introducing FingerWorks. I stumbled across their iGesture Pad on ThinkGeek the other day and started digging for reviews. What reviews I have found exclaim how remarkable the products work, but not many reviews could be found. It sounds like the answer to my search for relief, and it sounds too good to be true. So I'm asking, who out there has used these things and are they truly a revolution in the making?" Yes, ThinkGeek is part of the Sinister VA Software Kieretsu, but if you aren't worried about it, then neither am I.

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  1. ahhhhh!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "my hands and wrists get their fair share of exercise around the clock."

    Must resist urge to make pr0n comments.....

  2. Emacs Gestures? by glenstar · · Score: 3, Funny

    After looking at this, I am sure glad I don't use Emacs. Although,one really has to wonder how the Vim gestures would look...

    1. Re:Emacs Gestures? by one9nine · · Score: 4, Funny
      Basiclly, there are just two. The first involves making a fist and waving it at the screen and the second also involves a fist in front of your screen with your middle finger extended.

      Actually vi is really cool once you get the hang of it.

  3. Obligatory porn joke by Cokelee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure, it was all from typing . . .

  4. Re:Ganglion cysts are basically harmless by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree. Having had ganglion cysts for a long time, I've used the smashing method when I needed to have a different pain in my wrist. It works.

    --
    You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
  5. Ganglions are caused by inner conflict. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 2, Funny


    "The cause of ganglions is not always clear."

    Ganglions are caused by inner conflict. There is no direct connection with computer use.