Warmer Evolution: Man, Computer, Mouse, Hand Injury
The evolution of man as illustrated by AMAjokes.com -- Accurately shows a man using a computer! That's just about how it is.... We sit at the computer day in and day out. We rely upon computer technology for every aspect of our life. Remember key-punch cards? Who ever thought the computer would've evolved this quickly? The computer mouse has evolved, too. See the photo below. The simple optical USB ergonomic computer mouse is available with warm heat. The Warm Mouse is available online through several suppliers. We selected the "warmest" of the warm mouse collection. It heats between 99-104 degrees. Here's more details about the ValueRays Warm Mouse: Carbon fibre heating element, Warms the hand with a comfortable 99-104 degrees Farhenheit temperature, Uses a low voltage (5V) and is safe for people and the computer, On/Off Switch conveniently located on the USB cord, Turn Heated Warm Mouse off when not in use, 800 DPI scrolling Heated Warm Mouse, Optical Heated Warm Mouse, Requires no drivers or software, Easy plug & play installation.
The four-piece USB hand warmer set shown below includes a warm mouse, warm mouse pad, warm keyboard pad and mouse hand warmer pouch blanket. They are all made by ValueRays and can be found at either IGMproducts.com, eBay or Warm-Mouse-Heated-Keyboard.com. For a detailed description visit the websites.
Using infrared heated computer devices is a healthy way to use the computer. Infrared heat penetrates deeply through the skin's layers to the muscle tissue creating a therapeutic heat treatment every time you use the computer. About 20-30 minutes of infrared heat therapy daily helps prevent the onset of computer-related hand injuries. Repetitive strain injuries are on the rise. We click the mouse constantly and pound the keyboard all day! The cumulative trauma disorders like carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis create pain and cold hand symptoms. Using a warm mouse and warm mouse pad with infrared heat relaxes the muscles associated with using the computer mouse.
Preventing Hand and Wrist Problems
from Green Herbal
After age seventy human muscles begin to lose their strength and thus, older seniors need to be careful with their hands and wrists. To prevent injury it makes sense to pay attention and make wise choices. Many hand and wrist injuries occur from golf, tennis, bowling, and other senior sports, and yet a good many of these injuries occur from seniors breaking a fall with their hands, slipping on stairs, or carpal tunnel from high repetition.
Various theories on the actual cause of this debilitating condition range from trauma, genetics, hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis to repetitive motion at work.
from Green Herbal
After age seventy human muscles begin to lose their strength and thus, older seniors need to be careful with their hands and wrists. To prevent injury it makes sense to pay attention and make wise choices. Many hand and wrist injuries occur from golf, tennis, bowling, and other senior sports, and yet a good many of these injuries occur from seniors breaking a fall with their hands, slipping on stairs, or carpal tunnel from high repetition.
Various theories on the actual cause of this debilitating condition range from trauma, genetics, hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis to repetitive motion at work.
-Hand and wrist pain resulting as an effect of repetitive movements.- Tingling, burning sensations in your hands or even the feeling of numbness.- Weak hand strength, the result of which can be dropping objects often.
This problem has usually been associated with spending long hours of typing on the keyboard although until now there is not sufficient evidence to prove it. In fact a study conducted by Mayo Clinic in 2001 concluded that people who spent long hours in front of the computer did not show an increased risk of developing the complaint. The truth is there are a myriad of reasons as to why people develop CTS.
Permanent Pain Relief
If you want permanent carpal tunnel pain relief, you have to reverse the carpal tunnel dynamic.You have to get rid of the mechanism that is increasingly causing more and more pain and tightness. And you have to free up anything that is putting constriction on the nerve that feeds the arm and hand.Carpal therapy is something that everyone should have access to and that includes you. No one should have to go through the night and wake up with severe hand cramps or that tingling sensation. So what kinds of carpal therapy are available, and which one is right for you? Well before you answer those questions there are a few things you need to know.
Photos of the Touch Screens Courtesy of PC WorldTouch-screen success could make mouse, keyboard obsolete
By ROY BRAGG STAFF WRITER
Kat Bonner’s daily life is a blur, and she needs her information to keep up the pace. Between a job in the banking industry, time with family and friends, and a life on the Web, she needs a clear and fast path to her digital information on a moment’s notice. For years, the world has always been figuratively at Bonner’s fingertips. Now, thanks to her iPhone’s touch screen, it’s literally at her fingertips. Two fingers can stretch or shrink an image. A single touch opens a program. A flick of a finger scrolls or turns a page.
“My access to everything, from e-mails to texting to music and movies, is now easier because of the touch screen,” she says. “It is less time-consuming and more natural.”
The iPhone could be the first major breakthrough in computer communication since the computer mouse. Coincidentally, it could also mean the end of the mouse, as well as the harbinger of a move to de-emphasize the keyboard. “There has been a tremendous leap in the power and usability in most parts of your computer over the last 30 years,” says Ben Austin of Perceptive Pixel. “But the system for inputting information hasn’t moved in 30 years.”
Primitive forms of touch-screen technology have been in place for years. Single-touch screens used by restaurant workers, for example, and those at ATMs are common. More innovative systems, industry leaders say, will revolutionize how people use computers. Perceptive Pixel makes multitouch screens such as the Magic Wall used by CNN and other networks. It allows Election Night news anchors to move, shrink and expand map images and then scribble on them, using only their hands, all at the same time.
Says Austin of single-touch computing: “That’s not how our brains are wired to work.” Multitouch, he says, is more natural.
For now, these new systems are out of the price range of most home users, and software developers have yet to come up with many programs that take advantage of their capabilities. New programs, when they come, will allow multiple actions at once. Unveiled in 2007, Microsoft’s 30-inch (diagonal) digital desktop called Surface, for example, can be accessed from all sides. A room-full of workers can collaborate on the same project simultaneously.
“It’s a 360-degree interface,” says Matt Champagne, who works on the project.
Moving ahead
For now, Surface is being used primarily behind the scenes. BMW is rolling out a version that will allow buyers to customize car packages. At Harrah’s Rio iBar in Las Vegas, customers use Surface to order drinks and play games. The table can even recognize the drinks, thanks to bar-coded glasses. In the future, Microsoft says, users will be able to move their data — music, photos, documents — between handheld devices by simply laying them on a Surface table and flicking icons back and forth, like a digital foosball game. Until then, the iPhone shows how touch technology can change the computing game — and drive sales.
“The key is easy use of the phone’s applications,” AT&T’s Mark Siegel says. “The iPhone is successful because it gives people access to information so easily, and that has to do with touch technology and how simple it makes it to access the information.”
‘More natural’
The phone’s touch screen is intuitive and fast, Bonner says, and “buttons were becoming obsolete amongst my age group.”
Michael Davis, technology director for the schools in the Hill Country town of Leakey, agreed. He uses an iPod Touch to store and view his digital media.
“It is a more natural way of using a device. It requires less effort to accomplish the same task as it does on other devices.”
By ROY BRAGG STAFF WRITER
Kat Bonner’s daily life is a blur, and she needs her information to keep up the pace. Between a job in the banking industry, time with family and friends, and a life on the Web, she needs a clear and fast path to her digital information on a moment’s notice. For years, the world has always been figuratively at Bonner’s fingertips. Now, thanks to her iPhone’s touch screen, it’s literally at her fingertips. Two fingers can stretch or shrink an image. A single touch opens a program. A flick of a finger scrolls or turns a page.
“My access to everything, from e-mails to texting to music and movies, is now easier because of the touch screen,” she says. “It is less time-consuming and more natural.”
The iPhone could be the first major breakthrough in computer communication since the computer mouse. Coincidentally, it could also mean the end of the mouse, as well as the harbinger of a move to de-emphasize the keyboard. “There has been a tremendous leap in the power and usability in most parts of your computer over the last 30 years,” says Ben Austin of Perceptive Pixel. “But the system for inputting information hasn’t moved in 30 years.”
Primitive forms of touch-screen technology have been in place for years. Single-touch screens used by restaurant workers, for example, and those at ATMs are common. More innovative systems, industry leaders say, will revolutionize how people use computers. Perceptive Pixel makes multitouch screens such as the Magic Wall used by CNN and other networks. It allows Election Night news anchors to move, shrink and expand map images and then scribble on them, using only their hands, all at the same time.
Says Austin of single-touch computing: “That’s not how our brains are wired to work.” Multitouch, he says, is more natural.
For now, these new systems are out of the price range of most home users, and software developers have yet to come up with many programs that take advantage of their capabilities. New programs, when they come, will allow multiple actions at once. Unveiled in 2007, Microsoft’s 30-inch (diagonal) digital desktop called Surface, for example, can be accessed from all sides. A room-full of workers can collaborate on the same project simultaneously.
“It’s a 360-degree interface,” says Matt Champagne, who works on the project.
Moving ahead
For now, Surface is being used primarily behind the scenes. BMW is rolling out a version that will allow buyers to customize car packages. At Harrah’s Rio iBar in Las Vegas, customers use Surface to order drinks and play games. The table can even recognize the drinks, thanks to bar-coded glasses. In the future, Microsoft says, users will be able to move their data — music, photos, documents — between handheld devices by simply laying them on a Surface table and flicking icons back and forth, like a digital foosball game. Until then, the iPhone shows how touch technology can change the computing game — and drive sales.
“The key is easy use of the phone’s applications,” AT&T’s Mark Siegel says. “The iPhone is successful because it gives people access to information so easily, and that has to do with touch technology and how simple it makes it to access the information.”
‘More natural’
The phone’s touch screen is intuitive and fast, Bonner says, and “buttons were becoming obsolete amongst my age group.”
Michael Davis, technology director for the schools in the Hill Country town of Leakey, agreed. He uses an iPod Touch to store and view his digital media.
“It is a more natural way of using a device. It requires less effort to accomplish the same task as it does on other devices.”
Hmmmmm.... What's wrong with this advertisement for a Touch Screen? I see a computer mouse in this photo. Don't you?
The mouse is one of the greatest inventions ever--easily move your cursor around the screen by using a mouse plugged into your desktop or laptop computer. Simple and effective. But PC World is arguing the death of the mouse is near, and it's because of all the new technology like touchscreens, voice recognition devices, and more.
By the editors of Ladies' Home Journal
My fingers and toes are always cold in the winter. Could this be a sign of something serious? Elinor Mody, MD, director of the Women's Orthopedic and Joint Disease Center at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital: Cold air makes blood vessels contract, decreasing blood flow to your extremities. The vast majority of women who complain about cold fingers and toes don't have an underlying condition. But their chill can signal low thyroid hormone or Raynaud's disease, a blood-vessel disorder. Fingers and toes can also feel cold if you have anemia, diabetes, arthritis, or take certain blood-pressure medications. Caffeine may play a role, too. How can I warm myself up? Keep the core of your body warm. Dress in layers and wear a hat and mittens instead of gloves so your fingers can share body heat. I don't recommend warm packs -- those chemical pouches you can slip in gloves or boots -- especially with Raynaud's sufferers (you may not be sensitive enough to heat and could get burned). Why is my husband always warm when I'm freezing? On average, men have a larger body mass, which accounts for their greater inner warmth.
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the warm mouse blog is very interesting. i read it all the time. keep up the interesting warm mouse posts. thank you
I like reading the warm mouse blog, too. It really has fun pictures and helpful information. I never knew there was such a thing as a heated computer mouse
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