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Shake Hands with the Zero Tension Mouse
ThinSkin writes "Given its shape and ability to cup your hand, the Zero Tension Mouse can be moved around without bending the wrist or moving the fingers, while also keeping the hand in a vertical position and the arm in a more ergonomic neutral position. ExtremeTech reviews the Zero Tension Mouse and, although acknowledging it as 'funny looking,' concludes that it amounts to a whole lot of worth for those who need it, or those who want to take preventative measures against RSI and related ailments."
Yes, it does look like something the goatse guy might shove up his ass.
...worthless
Thou shalt commit sarcasm
I've said it before, I'll say it again: the primary cause of RSI is masturbation, not mice!
Buy a friggin' graphics tablet!
And get writers' cramp? No thanks.
My head is stuck in the cupboard!
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Yep... that's sounds like a hand position that most slashdotters are quite familiar with! Hmm... I wonder what the inventor was doing when he first got the idea for this mouse?
At a press conference introducing the "radical" Microsoft curved mouse, Bill Gates talked about how 7 million dollars was spent just on ergonomics.
Then a reporter asked about the availability of a left-handed version. After a two second pause, the audience was told that it works either way.
You have an inability to count.
Huh, you think you're tough. A real computer only needs a kernel, a shell, and ed. ed for programming (binary), ed for writing, ed for editing pictures/movies/music (hexadecimally), ed as a browser, ed for everything. Output other than "?" is useless.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
Editors are for wimps. I use a magnet on a stick to flip the bits on my hard drive directly.
IIRC the first such mouse was designed by a Norwegian company. (The mouse looks exactly like the one 3M makes, so I guess they licensed the design.) Anyway, to lend some credit to your excellent observation, I can add that "mouse" in Norwegian is in fact a common slang for the Holy Grail of Objects Unattainable to the Average Slashdot User: the female reproductive organ*. Taking this into account, it's hardly a surprise that it was invented in Norway.
BTW, this gives us the euphemism "ergonomically mousing", which helps relieve some of the strain of the old euphemism "left-handed mousing". Well, I'm off to do some "flight simulatoring" and get to bed**.
* For more info on this topic, see pretty much anywhere on the Internets.
** All quotation marks should be accompanied with air quotation mark gestures, unless you're busy "ergonomically mousing", "left-handed mousing", or "flight simulatoring"** ***.
*** Damn, I managed to make a recursive footnote!
The view was horrible and the smell was even worse; Julie severely regretted becoming a proctologist.
Ill say it to you, as I said it the office manager.
Ill stop masturbating at work when they pry my cock from my cold dead fingers!
You mean your warm, soft, lotioned fingers?
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