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[georgmi]

So I was looking for a mouse with a tilt wheel, because the camera controls in Neverwinter Nights 2 are terrible on my machine when I use the default control of moving the cursor to the edge of the screen. I was hoping the left-right tilt feature would translate--or be mappable--to the left-right arrow keys, which are the secondary control scheme for the camera and work much better for me.

I picked up the Microsoft "Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000", which claimed to be ergonomically designed, and which supposedly lets your wrist and hand rest at a more natural (hence the name) angle, and also take pressure off the carpal tunnel. The mouse is also bigger, to fill up the hand better and reduce the need to hold your fingers at odd angles.

As I use the mouse, I can definitely feel that the theory is sound--my arm does seem to like the angle prescribed by the mouse, and the resting pressure is now along the side of my hand. But.

But apparently, the mouse was designed to fill up a significantly smaller hand than mine, so when I'm actually using the thing, I have to grip it too tightly and my hand arcs uncomfortably. Every couple of minutes, I have to let go of the thing and flex my wrist to realign my carpals, which operation is accompanied by a distressing cracking sound, audible across the room.

So, anybody in the area (with smaller hands) want a brand-new wireless mouse? Make me an offer; I paid $25 for it.

ETA: To be clear, if the best offer someone makes me is, "it would be easy for you to drop it off at my place when you were on your way by", I would be happy to consider it. I'm not going to be using it, so somebody ought to get some use out of it.

Comments

[mortal-sin.livejournal.com]

This is the mouse I've had for the last ten years or so, and I have found it quite usable for gaming: everything from NWN (a spin of the trackball to swivel) to Mass Effect (my current addiction), Civ4, WoW, etc. Not so great for Flight Simulator, but I bought a joystick for that. And it looks like one of those nerve ending scaled models of a particular bit of the female anatomy, which I personally find hilarious.

<img src="http://www.amaczone.com/images/image_large/Logitech_Optical_Marble_Mouse_-USB-PS2-156.jpg"

[mortal-sin.livejournal.com]

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I have the Logitech that puts the trackball under your thumb; I'm fairly fond of it when traveling with the laptop, and it always treated me pretty well for my RTS gaming. Maybe I'll break it out and give it a try for the main machine. *does so* Hmm. Reasonably accurate, but slow (alternately, reasonably quick, but inaccurate). Probably not too surprising for something I bought in 2003; I'll keep using it to see if it's worth upgrading to a new one.

The trackball-in-the-middle configuration of your model confuses my clicking fingers, though. :)