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Posted by Hemos on from the air-that-off dept.

japala writes "Some people tend to have cold hands while they type the keyboard or use the mouse. Equally as many suffer from sweaty palms and that feels really annoying while using the mouse. MetkuMods have made couple of tutorials in true DIY spirit that will try to make your life easier. These devices may have started as a joke but trust me, they do work. See the MouseFan and BreezePad."

18 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. Now if only... by tool462 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they could come up with something to deal with those nasty keyboard "spills" for when I'm conducting my online "research".

    1. Re:Now if only... by EverDense · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...they could come up with something to deal with those nasty keyboard "spills" for when I'm conducting my online "research".

      Holy Cow! Pete Townsend reads SlashDot.

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      http://jesus.everdense.com/
    2. Re:Now if only... by chunkwhite86 · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...they could come up with something to deal with those nasty keyboard "spills" for when I'm conducting my online "research".

      Let me guess... you work part-time compiling site filter lists for Net-Nanny?

      Yeah, that's what I tell them too.

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      I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
  2. Errr... by SugoiMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder why their hands are sweating?

  3. Sweaty Palms by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could it be that their palms are sweating because of the impending slashdotting that they KNEW they were going to get?

  4. Re:Finals week.... by Omphalion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny it's "hell week" and yet you still find the time to wait around anxiously for the first post.

  5. Re:How about babypowder ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    baby powder, Micheal Jackson...
    Why must you give such horrifying visuals?

  6. Re:Palmar hyperhidrosis by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 4, Funny
    I saw some medical thing on a cable channel about how you could cut a specific nerve to simply make the sweating stop. Interesting.

    Well, maybe a new area of interest for the masochists among us: self-modding! Open arm, cut nerve, insert obscene amount of blue leds, etcetera!

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    Hate me!
  7. Ahead of you in Japan... by I+Want+GNU! · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yup, they've already thought of this in Japan, where the toilets will clean your derrière. No, I'm not joking...to quote from a random article about this:
    An American diplomat was at a dinner party in a Japanese home when he excused himself to go to the bathroom. He did his business, stood up and realized he didn't have a clue about how to flush the toilet.

    The diplomat speaks Japanese, but he was still baffled by the colorful array of buttons on the complicated keypad on the toilet. So he just started pushing.

    He hit the noisemaker button that makes a flushing sound to mask any noise you might be making in the john. He hit the button that starts the blow-dryer for your bottom. Then he hit the bidet button and watched helplessly as a little plastic arm, sort of a squirt gun shaped like a toothbrush, appeared from the back of the bowl and began shooting a stream of warm water across the room and onto the mirror.


    and so on..
  8. Re:What about sweaty fingers? by Izago909 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try turning up your mouse sensitivity or acceleration. I can crank mine up and send the cursor across the screen with a sneeze.

  9. whups by Afbc0m · · Score: 1, Funny

    s s s s slashdotted
    that's another one
    welcome to slashdot.org, the worlds most organized dos attack

  10. Re:Palmar hyperhidrosis by wo1verin3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just started looking for a site on the net with 'stop sweating' but realized the hot IT chick I work with will be looking through logs of the sites I visited, you only get once chance to make a first impression!

  11. reminds me of this story by dpletche · · Score: 2, Funny

    Teenager dies from deodorant overdose

  12. BreezePad? by bobobobo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like some kind of feminine hygiene product if you ask me.

  13. Re:Solution to sweaty hands. by josh+crawley · · Score: 2, Funny

    So are we going to see an article/ad about people selling your Mouse Doilies on slashdot next week? Wait a minute, that doesn't have enough marketing cache... how about the Logitech Optical Mouse Nappy Pro EXTREME - For Gamers!!!

  14. I'm living / working in Singapore... by canning · · Score: 2, Funny

    and it's hot and humid here 365 days a year. Do you think these guys would make a shirt out of this for me? I've constantly got the Norm Peterson sweat bra happening and it's getting embarrasing.

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    I love the smell of Karma in the morning
  15. you know this guy's a mod freak... by switcha · · Score: 4, Funny
    my favorite line: I didn't have a 1/2" drill bit, so I drilled a smaller hole and widened it using a Dremel tool.

    See, a normal guy would have just gone and bought a 40 cent drill bit while he was out shopping for parts. With the gratuitous Dremel use, we know we have a true modder on our hands, here.

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    You know what? ... A little club soda *did* get that out!
  16. Re:Good Grief. Potty humor. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But if they have a buffer overflow they'd have to call the plumber.