This rebaissance thing looks good. But I think it would be less precise to make movements with the arm. After all the idea behind a normal mouse was to rest the arm and the wrist on the desk, hold the mouse between the thumb and little finger and move it with fingers. Now since I work on a dual head monitor, I have a lot of X movement than Y movement, and exactly that has been the bad thing for the wrist, all that in an unnatural palm down position.
Has anyone had experience with a real joy stick in CAD?? :-) Shahab. -------- Shahab Sanjari (sanjariathrzdottu-darmstadtdotde) On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Chad Robinson wrote: > Shahab Sanjari wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there anyone there who uses a trackball as a pointing device at work? > > For more than 2 months, my wrist became really uncomfortable and it > > started to ache after a few hours of working with mouse. Recently it is > > aching all the time, and since yesterday, I am keeping it warm with a > > bandage. After a weak of searching, I bought a trackball, in the hope of > > at least changing the position in which the muscles are in tension. This > > one has the ball at the side so that you can move it with your thumb. The > > others with the ball at the top aren't that good, since you still have to > > keep the index finger in tension when you don't move the ball. I clicked > > around in PCB to see how it feels.It has been good till now, but it is > > still kinda' weired. The movements are still not precise enough, I still > > need practice. Is there anyone who has come back to mouse after using a > > trackball and having lost the hope of making precise movement with it? > > Tried and failed. I found the large trackballs too inconvenient to use, and as > you pointed out, the small ones were not accurate enough. Further, my pain > just shifted spots with them, it moved into the base of my thumb. > > What I've found very helpful is the "3M Renaissance Mouse". It's a traditional > mouse but you hold it like a joystick. That has cleared up nearly all my pain. > I've also been trying out tablets, but so far haven't had great luck with > Linux compatibility, at least in the less expensive options. > > Regards, > Chad >
