Posted by
timothy
on from the don't-take-the-salmon-fishing-job dept.
japala writes "Many of us will have to use our computers even when it's summer. Getting sweaty and frustrated, but you have to get the work done or that last level played. Why not cool your mousing hand down with something as unique as BreezePad. DIY all the way baby!"
Well, it survived...
by
No+Such+Agency
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· Score: 3, Funny
My mousing hand survived Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Counterstrike, a smattering of non-FPS games, and (so far), America's Army. However, when it's released, Half-Life 2 may turn out to be the final nail in my carpal tunnel, cooling or no cooling.
-- Freedom: "I won't!"
Wimpy computers
by
andy_shepard
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· Score: 5, Funny
What kind of pathetic little computers do you use that your computer room isn't hot year round?
Computers beat electricity company (by cracking the customer database).
It's a whole new game for the summer folks!
-- Beep beep.
I bought one...
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Funny
...and it blows.
Re:Obligatory /.ing joke
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FrYGuY101
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· Score: 3, Funny
More obligatory Slashdot jokes:
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I for one welcome our new climate-controlling-mousepad overlords.
In Soviet Russia, Mousepad cools YOU!
1: Slap fan on mousepad
2: ???
3: Profit!
Sadly, I can't figure out any way to work in either hot grits, or Natalie Portman.
-- "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
totally insensitive
by
big+daddy+kane
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· Score: 2, Funny
you insensitive clod I live in Antartica!
Re:Drysol is the answer
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dhalgren99
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· Score: 1, Funny
Wait, wait, wait. You say:
"(Yes, this means there is a cure for ball-sweat)"
And yet, you also say:
" The stuff can really burn the first couple times you use it."
Not to mention:
"Other alternatives include iontophoresis (don't buy the unit, just build one yourself with some aligator clips, a resistor and a bunch of 9V batteries in series).
Surgery is also an option for overactive sweat glands, but I'd say the risks outweigh the benefits in that instance."
Something's not right in that reply!
subliminal hit
by
quetzalc0atl
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· Score: 2, Funny
>sweaty and frustraited >cool your mousing hand down..
riiiiight...thats something that one dude shouldn't say to another dude
I have a heated keyboard and mouse (touchpad anyway); It's my P4 laptop computer.
It would also keep my legs warm if I actually kept it on my lap, and it puts out enough heated air from the side vent to use as a hand-dryer/blow-dryer. Thanks Intel!
-- "Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?"- Peter Gabriel
forget mice. use a trackball.
by
herrd0kt0r
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· Score: 2, Funny
using a mouse requires movement of the entire upper extremity.
using a trackball requires movement of yr thumb.
it's much more efficient, and now i have MUSCLES, something i never could've gotten, using a mouse. of course, only my thumb is awesomely rippled, but hey, it's a start.
Anybody Who Visits /.
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3, Funny
Is almost certainly "sweaty and frustrated" by definition.
Re:Drysol is the answer
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Fnkmaster
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· Score: 5, Funny
Other alternatives include iontophoresis (don't buy the unit, just build one yourself with some aligator clips, a resistor and a bunch of 9V batteries in series).
I'm sorry, did you just recommend I put an alligator clip, a resistor and a bunch of 9V batteries in series with my balls to cure ball sweat? You sir are a disturbed man.
Re:Serious problem for some users
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Spoing
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· Score: 2, Funny
Many slashdoters may think this is a joke, but it is a serious problem for some users. I had a friend at college who's hand would sweat so profusely that he had to put a rag over his mouse to keep it from shorting out. No joke!
Sure that was "sweat", sunshine?
-- A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
Re:Better Solution?
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ottothecow
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· Score: 2, Funny
the next time my mouse dies
Maybe you wouldnt have that problem if you didnt buy a $16 mouse in the first place;)
You're not recycling that energy nearly enough unless you've got an Athlon XP2800 laptop. Buy now and Dell will include a voucher for a free ambulance ride to the hospital for your 2nd degree thigh burns
Will my mousing hand survive?
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dougmc
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· Score: 2, Funny
... probably. It almost didn't survive Diablo 2, which should have been renamed `carpal tunnel syndrome in a box', but it did, because I just stopped playing -- it was just too hard on my mouse pointing finger. Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click...
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, it's about time Slashdot started breaking some real news like a season starting. Anyway, if you don't have AC, I pity you and your computer.
For some of us, it represents half our love lives.
"See that's what you have to do, come up with some really great idea and never have to work again. Like that guy, that invented the pet rock."
:(){
Just leaves your hand in perfect shape for the other good use... ..sax.
/.'er... ;)
What? You were thinking something else than Saxophone? You dirty minded
Perhaps the slashcode's submit script should have a spell checker.
Make America grate again!
Many of us will have to use our computers even when its summer.
Excuse me, but just what kind of a geek are you ??
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
You use the mouse? I'd rather have cooling for my foot peddles.
I like the idea of a cool stream of air blowing up my pants...Oops, did I say that out loud.
Mousing? Is that what you internet perverts are calling it now?
....use nothing but a keyboard
My mousing hand survived Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Counterstrike, a smattering of non-FPS games, and (so far), America's Army. However, when it's released, Half-Life 2 may turn out to be the final nail in my carpal tunnel, cooling or no cooling.
Freedom: "I won't!"
What kind of pathetic little computers do you use that your computer room isn't hot year round?
...and it blows.
More obligatory Slashdot jokes:
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I for one welcome our new climate-controlling-mousepad overlords.
In Soviet Russia, Mousepad cools YOU!
1: Slap fan on mousepad
2: ???
3: Profit!
Sadly, I can't figure out any way to work in either hot grits, or Natalie Portman.
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
- Seneca
Summer Is Coming; Will Your Mousing Hand Survive?
Must... Resist... Lame... Masturbation Joke.
-Colin
You obviously need a mouse wookie
you insensitive clod I live in Antartica!
Wait, wait, wait. You say:
"(Yes, this means there is a cure for ball-sweat)"
And yet, you also say:
" The stuff can really burn the first couple times you use it."
Not to mention:
"Other alternatives include iontophoresis (don't buy the unit, just build one yourself with some aligator clips, a resistor and a bunch of 9V batteries in series).
Surgery is also an option for overactive sweat glands, but I'd say the risks outweigh the benefits in that instance."
Something's not right in that reply!
>sweaty and frustraited
>cool your mousing hand down..
riiiiight...thats something that one dude shouldn't say to another dude
Slashdot Is Coming; Will Your Server Survive?
I have a heated keyboard and mouse (touchpad anyway); It's my P4 laptop computer.
It would also keep my legs warm if I actually kept it on my lap, and it puts out enough heated air from the side vent to use as a hand-dryer/blow-dryer. Thanks Intel!
"Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?"- Peter Gabriel
using a mouse requires movement of the entire upper extremity.
using a trackball requires movement of yr thumb.
it's much more efficient, and now i have MUSCLES, something i never could've gotten, using a mouse. of course, only my thumb is awesomely rippled, but hey, it's a start.
Is almost certainly "sweaty and frustrated" by definition.
I'm sorry, did you just recommend I put an alligator clip, a resistor and a bunch of 9V batteries in series with my balls to cure ball sweat? You sir are a disturbed man.
Sure that was "sweat", sunshine?
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
Maybe you wouldnt have that problem if you didnt buy a $16 mouse in the first place ;)
Bottles.
Underachiever!
You're not recycling that energy nearly enough unless you've got an Athlon XP2800 laptop. Buy now and Dell will include a voucher for a free ambulance ride to the hospital for your 2nd degree thigh burns
-Billco, Fnarg.com
Is this the Goldielocks mouse pad ? First too warm, then too cold, then too warm, then too cold. Ahhh...just right!
Pants? You wear pants? ...Oops, did I say that out loud?
Three Squirrels
Now I'm just more careful about what I play :)
"Hey geek, does anyone even know you exist?"
"Yes, in fact I have many fans."
JeR
Perhaps this should give people a clue that violence is not always a good way of fixing things...
Martin
Who is Summer?? PICS?!