Clammy Modding

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."

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Now if only...

[tool462]

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

Errr...

[SugoiMonkey]

I wonder why their hands are sweating?

What about sweaty fingers?

[Anonymous Coward]

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).

Palmar hyperhidrosis

[sstory]

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.

Re:Palmar hyperhidrosis

[Dark Lord Seth]

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!

Sweaty Palms -- Dirty Mouse Pads

[srw]

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.

Sweaty Palms

[Eberlin]

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

Ahead of you in Japan...

[I Want GNU!]

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..

the Peltier effect is cool!

[sentientbeing]

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

Re:the Peltier effect is cool!

[SharpFang]

Not really. The mouse has 4 wires - 2 for data and 2 for power, and it has pretty high tollerance for power (at least my logitech has :). Even the data lines are quite "strong". I tapped into the data lines, connecting them to amplifier, powered it from power lines and made a LED "activity indicator" that blinks whenever something on the PS2 line happens (i.e. the mouse is moved :)

Note it's digital transmission, not analog, so you need quite strong line noise to break it.

BreezePad?

[bobobobo]

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

you know this guy's a mod freak...

[switcha]

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.