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Shake Hands with the Zero Tension Mouse

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mousing-with-a-pile-of-goo dept.

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."

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  1. Well by ShooterNeo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I see this as a legitimate product. It doesn't take a medical degree or a huge budget to see that if RSI is caused by using a particular joint, avoiding that joint avoids the problem. You do not need to move your wrist at all to use this mouse. A device built from a sound principle, no snake oil involved.

  2. funny looking? by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I remember seeing the first boxy mice and thinking they were funny looking. "What's the use of a keypad with only two buttons on it? What? You're supposed to MOVE it?"

    And yes, I did have to walk to school when I was a child. Uphill. Both ways.

  3. It's not new.... by Yuan-Lung · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A person with wrist problems in our office has been using a joystick-like mouse for a long time. It's hard to use for me, and gives me a sore elbow. Maybe I am using it wrong, but after having learned how to protect my wrist using a conventional mouse, I would rather not start over and having to learn to protect my elbow from a new product that doesn't offer any real advantage.

  4. Re:Looks just about perfect to me. by Kaenneth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's slow damage, over years of time. In order to afford surgery, and better medications than insurance coverage provides (the Mayo clinic has some interesting fine joint replacement implants), and to relieve the boredom of not working (Playing CounterStrike and Everquest all day would be as bad as programming; except most programming environments allow speech recognition software).

    I'm doing the best I can with what I have and the time I have, instead of spending the rest of my life sitting in a trailer watching TV and smoking pot on the government dole, and dying with perfect hands.

    My priorities include being a useful person to the rest of the world, not simply doing the best thing for myself.