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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."
...they could come up with something to deal with those nasty keyboard "spills" for when I'm conducting my online "research".
I wonder why their hands are sweating?
Does anyone actually use their entire palm with their mouse? I've always used just my fingers so that only my wrist has to move around rather than my entire arm (insert masterbation jokes here).
People who have this condition so bad that their mouse shorts out have Palmar Hyperhidrosis, and it can be treated by applying antiperspirant to your palms several times per week. I read an article about it. It's totally weird. dripping hands all the time.
just a thought. Good enough for MJ before a game.
I used to work in a computer store. One of our staff would spend most of the day sitting at a computer in the showroom playing Everquest or whatever other game was new at the time. Another employee would daily replace the grimey mouse pad. Seriously, after 8 hours of gaming the mouse pad would have a very noticable, ugly stain on it.
Could it be that their palms are sweating because of the impending slashdotting that they KNEW they were going to get?
It hese work and it looks like they could. I think I would rather have this tech in my steering wheel on my car. I know that after about four hous driving my hands start to hurt from the moisture build up
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Funny it's "hell week" and yet you still find the time to wait around anxiously for the first post.
You saw it right here on Slashdot! Unfortunately its by the same folk who did this sweaty palm mod (Metku) and they're Slashdotted :(
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I thought those ideas were a bit lame. I know the mouse fan was a joke, but I wouldnt want the fan generating all sorts of harmonics on the 5v power line anyway. Screw all the signals up I reckon. Especially on the optical variety which uses signal processing.
A Peltier cooling device on the 'other hand' (no pun intended) would be ideal and it can be molded to almost any shape mouse, and it uses constant current. Utilised in this project
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Can I get enough power to the mouse over existing wiring to add some heater device or do I have to replace the cable? What would you suggest as the heater - will a few plain higher-than-minimum power resistors suffice? Will I be able to run it from built in computer ATX power supply or do I need some extra external power?
(that metal "inertia wheel" is very cool for fast scrolling but it gets damn cold in winter.)
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...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.
Cutting one of your nerves, ANY nerve, should be an absolute last resort.
Most people don't know that nerves are one of the least-regenerative cells in the body... they can sometimes regrow axons, but it can take months, and only works if the severed nerve is micro-surgically realigned (if you don't exactly realign the epineurium, which is the outer sheath of that nerve bundle, your odds of regrowth go down dramatically), and cutting nerves can have unexpected consequences.
Operations to sever nerves are sometimes done for RSD, or reflex sympathetic dystrophy (it has new nomenclature now, can't remember it at the moment). In that case, the sympathetic trunks are destroyed in an attempt to alleviate symptoms, with variable success.
I've never heard of anyone getting a nerve ablation for simple dyshidrosis, unless it were part of a larger syndrome... personally, I'd have to be miserable almost to the point of insanity before I'd agree to that procedure.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
With vibrations coming from the fan, the mouse will be always sending SOMETHING. Not enough to make the cursor visibly move, but enough that a screen blanker will never go off.
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Now, is it good or bad news?
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This may be filed under the "funny, laugh" department, but I would LOVE some kind of heating device for my hands. I work in an office which is always freezing cold in the summer (they crank the air conditioner, yet they complain about wanting to save money :-/ ), and my hands get so cold I find it very difficult to type.
:( In the meantime, I go through one of those chemical heating pads every single day. I should try to get reimbursed for them from HR. ;-)
I would love to buy an electrical wrist rest heater (like those wrist cushions for RSI), but nobody seems to make one.
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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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Sounds like some kind of feminine hygiene product if you ask me.
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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Ive started wearing a wrist band for long strenchs at the computer. Its the best thing to happen to LAN gaming for me. It helps with wrist support plus it wipes away sweat from my brow or my palms. So if you want a functional wrist and sweat saver device that also acts a a great "punk rocker" fasion statement get yourself a wristband.
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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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!!!
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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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.
You know what?
It hit me that maybe this mousefan (and probably breezepad too) is a patentable idea in the USPTO. It's certainly more innovative than some of the other garbage that gets accepted.
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If you send them a photocopy of your keyboard, most companies will produce a reasonable keyboard skin for you.
It's still very much a love it or hate it thing... you have to weigh up whether the weird rubbery texture and lack of key feel is worth ignoring to keep crap out of your keyboard. But if you're really jittery with your first caffiene source in the morning, it may be a cheaper option than constantly replacing fried keyboards.
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How about mice/keyboards themselves? At work, it's pretty easy to pick out the ones used by smokers, as the yellow chunky residue makes its way onto their keys.
Having to do any service work that involves touching those keyboards is just gross - and it makes me wonder that if it's mucking up the keyboard that badly, what is it doing to their body?