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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."
You saw it right here on Slashdot! Unfortunately its by the same folk who did this sweaty palm mod (Metku) and they're Slashdotted :(
...you can already buy a suitable mouse (well, at least if you're in Japan).
From this week's Akiba PC Hotline: the fan mouse.
Of course, you'd have to find one that actually fit your keyboard.
I've been debating on getting a waterproof keyboard, for the computer in my kitchen. [so that I can have easy access to recipies online and/or watch movies while cooking]Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
I'd have to suggest against getting that surgery for anyone with HH (hyperhidrosis). I myself have HH, and looked into the surgery extensively. The surgery causes compensatory sweating on your upper body and it seems that many (though not all) report that the compensatory sweating is just as bad - if not worse - than the palmar HH.
That said, there is something you can do that is cheaper, less risky, and more effective. Check out drionic, which is a device you can use that will stop sweating for up to 6 weeks at a time. I've used it for over 3 months now and I'm happy as can be. Stopped the excessive sweat on my hands and my feet.
Also of interest for those of us who like to hack at things, is this site which shows you how to mod your drionic units to use a 9V wall adapter instead of their expensive proprietary batteries.
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I don't see why resting your palm on the mouse would preclude use of your wrist and force you to move your arm. Maybe I'm just strange and/or dense.
Or maybe you just have small hands. You know what they say about the size of a guy's hands...
Maybe they have hyperhidrosis, described as "excessive sweating of the hands, feet, and face, excessive facial blushing, or any combination of these conditions".
This is my
Mechanical mice work by monitoring a small beam of UV light as it passes through a pair of grooved disks (like those on an image master). In a very basic form that I'm sure will be picked apart, it counts the number of blinks of light that it sees. Therefore, if you move it a small enough amount you won't break the threshold for blinking the light on / off, and the movement won't register at all.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the vibrations were small enough that they wouldn't register on a consumer level mechanical mouse.
Now optical, there's another story...
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According to thermodynamics, an average particle in a cooled mouse moves slower, so the mouse (being built from those particles) as whole will move slower too. Heating has opposite effect.
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Google Cache of the original page, text only.
A similar page at Homelinux, describing the modification made at metku.net.
Yoshi DeHerrera's version from screensavers. Once again, the same idea, but from March 2002.
A real modder's version complete with unnecessary blue LEDs.
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