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!"
Re:Better Solution?
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Predius
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· Score: 5, Informative
Got both their mouse and gamepad. I can't tell when the mouse is on or off unless my hand is on it to feel the breeze. Haven't really done any super hardcore gaming since getting it, so can't comment on it's abiltity to help when gaming or visiting those... moist websites.
Re:Better Solution?
by
utahraptor
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I have to say, after having that mouse for 3 months with it slowly becoming worse to unuseable at the end, that it is the worse mouse ever. The noises the fan makes is like the buzzing of an angry hornet. You have to hit it gently to get it to stop. Eventualy, after hitting it too many times, the optics gave out.
I live in Michigan and the Winters here can get fairly cold. Does anyone know if there is any type of heated keyboard/mouse out there. I have searched relentlesly but haven't been able to find an actual heated keyboard/mouse.
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
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
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
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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.
Drysol is the answer
by
cookie_cutter
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Its basically an industrial strength antiperspirant that plugs your pores. Its great for those with overactive sweat glands.
(Yes, this means there is a cure for ball-sweat)
My brother uses it and now has dry hands year round. Just reapply once a week before bedtime. The stuff can really burn the first couple times you use it.
In Canada its available without a prescription at any drug store. Just ask for it at the Pharmacist's counter.
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.
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.
I bought one...
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Funny
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."
Serious problem for some users
by
fo0
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· Score: 5, Informative
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!
Re:slashdotted already
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beeplet
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· Score: 3, Informative
But if they used that as a reason to subscribe, everyone would be signing up... and suddenly it would be false advertising.
mice are bad news
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3, Insightful
A lot of RSI injuries are mouse-related. I don't believe an ergonomic setup should include a mouse type device. Myself, I use a Kinesis Classic (it's $200, but worth every penny) and stick to the shell whenever possible. If your windowing environment supports keyboard shortcuts (as any good one should) then you don't even need a mouse. There are exceptions, but even then there's usually a better, less injury-prone device to use (frex, graphic artists are better off using a tablet).
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards /6afa/
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.
sounds like a good way to get RSI, you should allways make sure you hands/arms stay warm, better a bit too warm then too cold
For some of us, it represents half our love lives.
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!
Ratpoison.
Or you could just buy a cat.
one of these (the second row)
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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.
whose time has come
I live in Michigan and the Winters here can get fairly cold. Does anyone know if there is any type of heated keyboard/mouse out there. I have searched relentlesly but haven't been able to find an actual heated keyboard/mouse.
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?
(Yes, this means there is a cure for ball-sweat)
My brother uses it and now has dry hands year round. Just reapply once a week before bedtime. The stuff can really burn the first couple times you use it.
In Canada its available without a prescription at any drug store. Just ask for it at the Pharmacist's counter.
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.
...and it blows.
What if they just made a hovercraft mouse? Smooth scrolling and forced air - the perfect hack!
Humor from a Genetically Molested Mind
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
Check it out
This is a dupe...
use the search luke
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!
But if they used that as a reason to subscribe, everyone would be signing up... and suddenly it would be false advertising.
A lot of RSI injuries are mouse-related. I don't believe an ergonomic setup should include a mouse type device.
Myself, I use a Kinesis Classic (it's $200, but worth every penny) and stick to the shell whenever possible. If your windowing environment supports keyboard shortcuts (as any good one should) then you don't even need a mouse. There are exceptions, but even then there's usually a better, less injury-prone device to use (frex, graphic artists are better off using a tablet).
Slashdot Is Coming; Will Your Server Survive?
Is almost certainly "sweaty and frustrated" by definition.
Japala already submitted the exact same thing a year ago.
Not to mention his user info shows about 5 comments posted from him, most concerning mouse pads. Talk about a self-promoter
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