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How to maintain the computer mouse
from Click for How To

Mouse enables faster and easier execution of functions while working on the computer. A mouse comes in very handy, as you do not have to always rely on the keyboard to navigate. It is a time saving and convenient device. In addition, the scrolling facility enables us to work in an easy and fast manner. Mouse can be maintained very well by just taking a few precautions while using it.

Place the mouse in a smooth and clean surface. Get a mouse pad so that the mouse is not kept on furniture that does not have a smooth and polished finishing. Scrolling the mouse on a hard, uneven surface can slowly damage the devices that help in moving it.

Keep the mouse in a clean and dry place. If possible, buy a cover and keep the mouse covered when not in use. In this way, it will not get exposed to dust and dirt.

Keep your hands clean while handling a mouse. Wash your hands thoroughly and dry it before handling the mouse. Do not eat fries or chips, and touch the mouse without cleaning your hands. The grease or oil gets stuck to the surface and will lead to accumulation of dirt and dust particles. If the mouse is white, it may start showing signs of discolouration like turning yellow.

Do not play with the mouse, especially the scrolling button. Do not keep constantly scrolling it. It may be an unconscious activity when we are bored or restless. Do not be impatient if the icon you click at does not respond at once. Do not start clicking the mouse frantically if the system does not respond. It may just be that the system needs more time to extract the data.

Clean the mouse regularly. Refer to the manual provided at the time of installing the mouse. Use a solution especially meant for cleaning computer devices. Do not wash or scrub the mouse with detergents or soaps.

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Eliminating office injury a top priority
from LittleAbout.com

Government, business, and individuals are re-evaluating work station arrangements, regulations, and routines as awareness grows of the consequences of repetitive movement and overexertion from common office tasks.

Of the 2000 hours spent each year at work, an increasing fraction is spent in front of computer terminals, leading to an increase in repetitive strain injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome. Though not statistically documented by government agencies, arm, shoulder, back, and headache pain complaints are heard more and more around the office water cooler.

Supervisors are learning they can risk losing fewer workers to disability, time off, and worker’s compensation if they make offices more ergonomically friendly. Though budgets and management support of ergonomic improvements vary widely, human resource departments and small company office managers are beginning to address the problem as awareness grows.

WORKPLACE REGULATIONS
While present guidelines regarding the latest desk arrangements and office equipment demands are largely generalized safety precautions, the government, headed by OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is preparing strict and specific policies with the threat of enforcement and fines. The regulations could be approved by the end of 2000. In the US, where 300,000 ergonomic injuries occur yearly, businesses will have to design plans addressing the specific needs of the given industry. In Canada, government and commercial concern is also growing.

OSHA claims the plan would save businesses $9 billion dollars in worker’s compensation annually. But The National Coalition on Ergonomics, representing both large and small businesses, opposes regulation on grounds that employers will have to spend billions to make the changes. Some work-related injuries statistics show a downward trend, says a coalition spokesman who predicts the mandates will fail to assure the prevention of injury.

ERGONOMIC OUTFITTING
In the meantime, from receptionist desks to CEOs’ suites to the mail room, retrofitted work spaces are sporting ergonomic support devices that form a stark contrast to the lean, upright bureaucratic desk-chair-typewriter workstations that went largely unchanged from WWII through the early 1980s.

A NEW INDUSTRY
Daphne Thaung is an industrial hygienist, hired by companies to see how employee workstations can become ergonomically safer. “We improve morale, productivity, and just improve the overall environment of the workplace,” says Thaung. “You have to address the people’s concerns.”

Thaung has witnessed progressive companies implement a whole new way of thinking about on-the -job safety. “We are in an era of an aging workforce. “We can’t do things that we used to be able to do in the past,” she says. Ergonomic safety principles need to be implemented in all segments of society, and life, says Thaung. “It’s important that we adapt this not only in the workplace but also in the hobbies [and] personal activities that [we] might be involved in.”

Equipment as simple as cushioned rubber floor mats are being brought in for workers like mailroom sorters and loading dock clerks who are on their feet all day. Wheels are being put onto the bottoms of heavy containers that were once hauled around by hand or partially by trolley.

Employee education is also important to reduce injury, according to Thaung. “People are not utilizing all the adjustments, and so the next step of this is training people or getting people to be aware of how they sit, how to use the tool properly,” she says. One tool, called an ergometer, can be used to teach proper lifting. The device is strapped onto the arm so the wearer can hear beeping increase and decrease, reflecting the degree of muscle tension.

SAFETY IS GOOD BUSINESS
Since paying out disability insurance and replacing employees is expensive, precaution measures are generally thought to be in the interest of employers. Established companies and labor unions have ever-evolving manuals outlining policies and procedures regarding actions that may result in injury. Union policies disallow flight attendants from placing luggage into overhead bins, no matter how aged or feeble a passenger may be. Secretarial temp agencies teach new hires to refuse to lift or move anything that may result in injury, even if asked.

MINIMIZE STRAIN
Industrial hygienist Stephen Kowalewsky, who consults with corporations and conducts occupational research at the University of California, San Diego, recommends placing frequently used office devices, like the telephone and the computer mouse, within easy reach.

Computer screens should be about an arm’s length away from the eyes, Kowalewsky says, with the screen at or a little below eye level. Repeated awkward turning or looking up can result in day to day strain and long-term injury, he says.

Kowalewsky also says a footrest can take pressure off legs and back, and arm and wrist rests assure that wrists don’t bend but remain at the same level as the keyboard. Frequent breaks and stretching throughout the day can also reduce injury, he says.

Kowalewsky recommends workers experiment on their own to determine maximum comfort. His general principles have made a significant difference for many. Says Kowalewsky, “They will come back to us later on, and they’ll say , ‘That little change you made for my work station just changed my life.’”

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How to Choose the Best Computer Mouse
from Life123

Early mice had one or two buttons at most and operated with a rubberized ball that transferred motion to a pair of rollers inside the mouse that translated the ball’s movements into a horizontal and vertical position on the monitor. While this type of computer mouse was efficient, the rubber ball sometimes swelled in humid weather and the rollers would clog with desktop debris, making the computer mouse less accurate over time.

Skip the ball for your next computer mouse. An optical mouse uses an LED to track motion, eliminating the problems of dirt buildup. Optical mice work on most surfaces without a mouse pad, but if you have a translucent glass or polished stone desk you’ll need to keep the mouse pad.

A computer mouse with laser optics provides greater precision for designers, architects and digital artists. Unless you need a truly precise mouse, say for freehand drawing or modeling, it’s better to choose a less-expensive optical mouse.

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The eyes have it: Logo from the Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design (GUIDe) project at Stanford. The project’s goal is to use information about where a person is looking in order to develop applications that make interacting with computers easier. Credit: Manu Kumar, the GUIDe Program at Stanford University

An Alternative to the Computer Mouse
A user interface that tracks eye movement may provide an alternate way to use a computer.
By Kate Greene

A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person using a computer to click links, highlight text, and scroll simply by looking at the screen and tapping a key on the keyboard. By using standard eye-tracking hardware--a specialized computer screen with a high-definition camera and infrared lights--Manu Kumar, a doctoral student who works with computer-science professor Terry Winograd, has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate.


"Eye-tracking technology was developed for disabled users," Kumar explains, "but the work that we're doing here is trying to get it to a point where it becomes more useful for able-bodied users." He says that nondisabled users tend to have a higher standard for easy-to-use interfaces, and previously, eye-tracking technology that disabled people use hasn't appealed to them.


At the heart of Kumar's technology is software called EyePoint that works with standard eye-tracking hardware. The software uses an approach that requires that a person look at a Web link, for instance, and hold a "hot key" on the keyboard (usually found on the number pad on the right) as she is looking. The area of the screen that's being looked at becomes magnified. Then, the person pinpoints her focus within the magnified region and releases the hot key, effectively clicking through to the link.


Kumar's approach could take eye-tracking user interfaces in the right direction. Instead of designing a common type of gaze-based interface that is controlled completely by the eyes--for instance, a system in which a user gazes at a given link, then blinks in order to click through--he has involved the hand, which makes the interaction more natural. "He's got the right idea to let the eye augment the hand," says Robert Jacob, professor of computer science at Tufts University, in Medford, MA.


Rudimentary eye-tracking technology dates back to the early 1900s. Using photographic film, researchers captured reflected light from subjects' eyes and used the information to study how people read and look at pictures. But today's technology involves a high-resolution camera and a series of infrared light-emitting diodes. This hardware is embedded into the bezel of expensive monitors; the one Kumar uses cost $25,000. The camera picks up the movement of the pupil and the reflection of the infrared light off the cornea, which is used as a reference point because it doesn't move.


Even the best eye tracker isn't perfect, however. "The eye is not really very stable," says Kumar. Even when a person is fixated on a point, the pupil jitters. So he wrote an algorithm that allows the computer to smooth out the eye jitters in real time. The rest of the research, says Kumar, involves studying how people look at a screen and figuring out a way to build an interface that "does not overload the visual channel." In other words, he wanted to make its use feel natural to the user.


One of the important features of the interface, says Kumar, is that it works without a person needing to control a cursor. Unlike the mouse-based system in ubiquitous use today, EyePoint provides no feedback on where a person is looking. Previous studies have shown that it is distracting to a person when she is aware of her gaze because she consciously tries to control its location. In the usability studies that Kumar conducted, he found that people's performance dropped when he implemented a blue dot that followed their eyes.

In his studies of 20 people, he found that participants that needed to type and point could point faster using the gaze-based appraoch than using a mouse, although the error rate--20 percent--was fairly high. But overall, about 90 percent of participants reported that they preferred using EyePoint to the mouse.


It's the 20 percent error rate that could cause some problems, says Ted Selker, professor at the MIT Media and Arts Technology Laboratory. "[It's] a huge amount," he says, "because a person can notice a significant decline in accuracy at just 5 percent." Selker adds that the low accuracy could make text editing a challenge.


Kumar concedes that the system isn't perfect, but he contends that many of the errors came from people, who due to lack of practice, clicked links that they thought they had looked at but were only in their peripheral vision. Indeed, he says, trackpads, trackpoints, trackballs do not perform as well as a mouse either but are still viable input devices. Kumar says he's been working on algorithms that show promise for making EyePoint more accurate by accounting for peripheral vision related errors. Still, he allows that EyePoint might work poorly for certain people, such as those with thick glasses, special contact lenses, or lazy eyes.



Even so, Kumar is confident in the technology and its development as a tool for the general population. To that end, he has tested a number of different interface schemes, all under a project called Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design (GUIDe). Another application, called EyeExposé, is made for Apple's OS X feature called Exposé, in which a person can hit the F11 key to miniaturize all open windows, then drag the mouse cursor to the window she wants to bring forward. With EyeExposé, the user can hit the F11 key, then bring forward a window of interest by tapping a keyboard key. Also, Kumar has modified the "scroll lock" key on a keyboard in an application called EyeScroll: as a person reads, the screen slowly reveals more text. In addition, Kumar is testing a modified version of the "page up" and "page down" keys. When a person reads to the bottom of a page, the software automatically scrolls down one page; in order to help a reader keep her place, the most recently looked at part of the screen is highlighted.


The important thing about the Stanford research, says Shumin Zhai, researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA and pioneer in the eye-tracking field, is that Kumar "has been working on making eye tracking practical for everyday tasks." However, Zhai says that there may still be a barrier for the average person because she needs to go through a calibration process in which the software measures how quickly her eyes move.


There are some signs that eye-tracking technology could find its way to the consumer market soon. Apple's desktops and laptops are now equipped with a built-in camera for videoconferencing. If a higher-resolution camera, infrared LEDs, and software were added, Apple's machines would be able to support applications from the GUIDe project, says Kumar. If eye tracking proves appealing to the consumer, and the hardware costs drop to a reasonable range, eye-tracking interfaces could provide an alluring and entertaining alternative to the mouse or laptop track pad. "It's almost like magic when it's working," says Tufts's Jacob. "The sensation you get is that the computer's reading your mind, and that's really very powerful."


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Computer Mouse Help and Troubleshooting Tips
By: Jaceson Maughan

The computer mouse is second only to the keyboard in how you access and operate your computer, so when you need computer mouse help, take the time to troubleshoot what might be wrong before buying a new one.

Optical or Roller Mouse
An optical mouse or roller mouse can cause trouble when the working parts become dirty or grimy. For an optical mouse, clean the optical “eye” on the bottom of the mouse with a cotton swab dipped in some rubbing alcohol. Let it dry thoroughly. Clean up a roller mouse by removing the roller ball ring and taking out the ball. Clean it with mild soap and warm water. With a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol, clean the internal rollers thoroughly and let them air dry.

Wireless Mouse
When your wireless mouse starts to act up, you may notice that the tracking is no longer smooth, it takes more than two clicks to select something on the screen or the mouse doesn’t track for short periods of time. There are several things you can do to get the best performance from your wireless mouse without asking for computer help from an expert.

Check the receiver for the mouse, which is connected to the computer. The receiver should be plugged into the PS/2 or USB port; sometimes it can come loose or get blocked by something. If the signals are not being received from the mouse, poor performance will result.

A wireless mouse runs on batteries. When they run low, the mouse could demonstrate signs of unreliability. If you’ve checked the receiver and it seems fine, exchange the old batteries for new ones. Most wireless mouse setups either use a couple of AA batteries or must be recharged with a dedicated charger. Ensure that the wireless muse is fully charged before trying it out again.

Mouse Drivers
If cleaning and checking the mouse doesn’t work, you may need to reconfigure the mouse driver. You can do this by performing a system restore (that resets the computer to the last time the mouse was working) or you may even have to reload the mouse driver. Depending on your computer setup, refer to the owner’s manual for details on how to do that. A computer repair service can also assist you in this process if you are not comfortable doing it yourself.

If these troubleshooting tips do not restore function to the mouse, you may need to take the wireless mouse to a computer repair service for a more detailed inspection and internal examination.



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How an Optical Mouse Works With Your Computer
By Dachary Carey

Meet the optical mouse: a revolutionary device that eliminates sticky roller wheels, dirty sensors and irritating banging just to get your mouse to work. Gone are the days when you had to worry about opening a mouse to clean the scroll ball or sensors; the optical mouse makes all this bother obsolete by using imaging technology.

What Is an Optical Mouse?
An optical mouse doesn’t use sensor bars and a roller ball like a mechanical mouse. Instead, it bounces light off a surface to determine where it’s located and whether or not you’ve moved the mouse. Because an optical mouse works using a CMOS light sensor, you don’t have to worry about any moving parts. Desktop dirt and dust can still block the lens, but this is easily wiped off and you don't need to take the mouse apart to do it.

Optical mice are ideal in households with pets, because you don’t have to worry about dirt or fuzz accumulating and clogging the mouse sensors. They’re also great if you have an aversion to dusting, and you tend to accumulate fuzz or dirt on your desktop. You can use an optical mouse in a workshop or other area prone to dust or smoke without worrying about the mouse getting gummed up or having to clean it every couple of days.

Pictures Become Movement
An optical computer mouse works by bouncing light off a surface and taking hundreds of pictures per second to determine whether the surface has changed. The digital signal processor analyzes the pictures and measures the change in the surface, which translates to how far and in what direction you’ve moved the optical mouse. Because the mouse works from hundreds of pictures per second, the cursor appears to move very smoothly and you don’t have a jumpy, juddering motion.

This means that you can use an optical mouse anywhere. Because it doesn’t require contact with a slightly soft, tactile surface to manipulate a scroll ball, you can use an optical mouse on any surface, as long as its not transparent. You don’t need a mouse pad or even desk space; you can use an optical mouse on a book, your lap or any other relatively flat surface that can hold it. An optical laptop mouse is a great traveling companion for your laptop.

Precision and Control
Because an optical mouse can detect very small movements, this type of mouse offers superior precision and fine control over your mouse functions. Cursor movement is very smooth, enabling you to be much more precise than you would with a mechanical mouse. Gamers and graphic designers prefer the optical mouse because of its superior precision and fine control.

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The first computer mouse is a far-cry from the technology and functionality of today's warm computer mouse. Take for example, the heated computer mouse generates healing infrared heat to soothe aching muscles and improves blood circulation. Do you think the warm computer mouse was a thought 40 years ago? Probably not!

Douglas Engelbart

Who Invented the Computer Mouse?
By Gene Rodriguez III from Life123


Have you ever wondered who invented the computer mouse? The computer mouse is a pointing device that tracks its position on the desktop and uses the information to control the position of the cursor on screen. While mice are now common computer accessories, their acceptance was slow in coming.

Ancestors of the Modern Computer Mouse
In the 1950s, researchers working for the Royal Canadian Navy used a small bowling ball to create the first track ball. This pointing device was created as part of a top-secret project and never patented.

In 1968, Douglas Engelbart, working at the Stanford Research Institute, invented a single-button mouse he referred to as a "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System." The first mouse was made of wood and used two wheels to track the X and Y positions, which were translated into motion on a computer monitor. Engelbart patented his invention in 1970, but his patent expired before the device became popular.

In 1972, Bill English, a colleague of Englbart’s, developed the ball mouse while working for Xerox PARC. English’s mouse worked like an inverted trackball and came as standard equipment with Xerox 8010 Star Information System distributed in 1981.

In 1984, Apple computer released the first Macintosh (Mac) computer. The graphical user interface of the Mac, which borrowed heavily from work done at Xerox, made extensive use of the mouse. The popularity of the Mac established the mouse as the standard pointing device for PCs.

What Is a Computer Mouse Today?
The ball mouse was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. These older models had a small rubber ball in the base that triggered rollers to determine the X and Y coordinates on a monitor, and they only had one button. There were two big problems with the design: first, early mouse balls would swell in heat or high humidity, making the mouse inoperable. Second, all the dirt on a desk would eventually work its way into the mouse and gum up the roller wheels.

In the 1990s, optical mice were developed that used a light sensor to track the position of the device. Early optical mice needed to be used with special pads printed with a grid pattern. Advancements in technology allowed optical mice to be used on any surface, as long as it's not transparent.

Although the first mice had one button, later versions had two and sometimes three buttons. In 1997, Microsoft introduced the IntelliMouse that featured a scrolling wheel. With support built in to most major applications, the scroll wheel became a standard mouse feature for Windows PCs.

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We all know warm thoughts of this nature are not sent in an email! But, this person was obviously not paying attention to the most valuable tool on his desk top. Take a look at his computer workstation. He needs an ergonomic computer workstation for sure! If we're spending too much time online it becomes a problem, and too little time online can also cause problems. Do you have a closer relationship with your computer mouse than with your family & friends? Do your hands ache with pain from mouse clicking and pounding your fingers on the keyboard? If so, it's time to design a warm ergonomic computer workstation. A company called ValueRays has done all the work for you. All you need to do is locate the ValueRays USB Infrared Heated Computer Workstation and get set up in your home and work office space. We'll provide some links for you here. You can get the entire ValueRays USB Heaters ergonomic collection for about $99! That's quite a deal! That's about a 20% savings off individual prices if purchased separately.

Maybe it's time to adjust your computer workstation to ensure it's ergonomic and a healthy environment for your hands, arms, wrists and fingers. Here's our suggestion: Use the ValueRays USB Heated Ergonomic Computer Accessories. They include the Warm Mouse, Heated Mouse Pad, Warm Keyboard Pad, and Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pouch. The Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pouch holds the Warm Mouse and Warm Mouse Pad. It creates the ideal environment for the mouse hand; keeping it warm and relieving hand pain.

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Here's an interesting article . . . from ChocolateWorld.net

A Pad for my Mouse
by Mahalia

Computer Mouse Fatigue, Mouse Arm Disease, Cold hand Disease, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome… The list goes on. Type in Computer Mouse Disease on your favorite search engine and there are a whole variety of worrying diseases along with its own cocktail of symptoms. This generation has experienced more problems with their hands and elbows than the last. But of course most of the hand problems in the earlier generations were not labeled as the sicknesses mentioned above. Most people just blame it on bad joints(no pun intended for joint sufferers of the 70’s) and waving too long whilst the Naval ships leave for war. Nowadays, there are such problems as these that there is a whole industry dedicated to hand splints, ergonomic paraphernalia, add-ons, additional features, cushions, better equipment and what-have-yous. Well you get my meaning. There is even a solution in heated mouse via USB as solution to some of these problems. If you ask me, my answer is simple.

Before we go into the simple solution I am willing to propose, let me ask you if you suffer from the list of symptoms as:

Do you experience tingling and numbness on your wrist?
Pain anywhere between your shoulders and fingers?
Weaken muscles in the hands? Having the case of the dropsies?
Do you have deterioration of the musculoskeletal system?
Do you have what is called MORSI (Mechanical Onset RSI). RSI being a collective symptom for a disease?
The answer is simple. A mouse pad. A nice custom made mousepad with your own uploaded picture. A mousepad that says “Take a break, you are working to hard” would be the perfect solution for the aching wrist of yours. If it comes with a picture of the perfect rose reminding us of a romantic getaway or whatever getaway you have in mind, just so we can take a break from the monitor and its slave mouse. A mousepad that is both used at home and at work gently carressing the tired feet of your dear mouse and padding your dear wrist. Yes, a mousepad.


But if you do experience serious symptoms, please see a doctor. He would recommend you pitching that old factory supplied pad that has experienced years of wear and tear. He would say for hygenic purposes. He would suggest for aesthetic use. Besides, your mousepad looks like the separating earth strata after the great flood.

I pitched mine. Now I have a new cat pad for my mouse.

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And, if you really want to go gadgets electronic, read this. . . from TechBuzz.in

How To Replace Or Make A New Computer Mouse At Home ?

Ok, sorry for the cheeky heading. Unless you are an Electronics Student, who has access to the the chips, boards, wires etc, you cannot make a mouse by yourself.

But what if you had a software that’ll make any object around you to behave like a mouse, what more can you ask for ?? That’s what exactly CamSpace from Cam-trax does !!

Requirements -

1> Computer,
2> Webcam (most laptops come integrated with it, if yours doesn’t have one, then you can make use of external webcam too), and
3> CamSpace software installed on your system.

Using the software and the camera, you can make any object around you to behave like a mouse. Cam-trax enables you to play ANY PC game you want using almost any object as a game controller.

Now if you have an old steering lying in your garage, it’s time to put it work and make your own wii remote using it to start playing some exiting computer games !

Now does this mean that game manufacturers should watch out for something like this, or buy over the patent and start integrating it in their existing multi-million dollar business ?



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Maybe you're a Lefty and this little rant will catch your eye. . . How do lefties use a computer mouse? I tried switching mouse hands to relieve some of the mouse hand overuse, but I just can't get my left hand to click or move the computer mouse properly. Any comments about this? What's your experience been?

SOn the other hand...
by Snippets By Beth Jacks

I have a left-handed brother, a left-handed daughter, a left-handed son-in-law, 2 left-handed granddaughters, 2 left-handed grandsons, and poochie Pharaoh shakes with his left paw. This family is pretty far left, at least when it comes to being right brain dominant, and fortunately for our southpaws, they came along at an enlightened time and weren’t forced to change.

In the old days, the 20% (or less) of humanity who were born lefties suffered social stigma - many children went through mental and emotional anguish as parents and teachers attempted to force them to be right-handed. Today, however, left-handers enjoy the results of research proclaiming their enhanced creativity and artistic abilities.

J. T. deKay and Sandy Hoffeler, authors of “The World’s Greatest Left-Handers: Why left-handers are just plain better than everybody else,” say that “left-handers are wired into the artistic half of the brain, which makes them imaginative, creative, surprising, ambiguous, exasperating, stubborn, emotional, witty, obsessive, infuriating, delightful, original, and never, never dull.”

In the area of “little known facts,” lifescript.com says that lefties are able to “see more easily underwater, and also usually excel in sports such as swimming, fencing and tennis.” They maintain, too, that lefties are superior when it comes to fist fights. I’m not sure how they arrived at that - something about righties being surprised by a good punch from the left.

Who are some of these lefties? Dead ones include Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Napoleon, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, and Albert Schweitzer . . . plus a kazillion more.

Still kicking are Dave Letterman, Jay Leno, Bill Gates, Carol Burnett, Tom Cruise, Whoopie Goldberg, Robert Redford, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey and Kermit the Frog . . . and, again, a kazillion more. They’re everywhere!

In fact, President Obama joins three of the last four presidents in the leftie column - Ronald Reagan, the first George Bush, and Bill Clinton. Only George W. was right-handed. Interesting trivia, that.

But lefties still have hurdles to leap. The computer mouse is always on the right. Finding left-handed scissors is difficult. Learning to write without dragging that left hand across the page, smearing #2 pencil lead, is frustrating. And spiral notebooks - ouch! Common tools generally require wrist movements, left to right, awkward for lefties, like corkscrews, lightbulbs, screws and clock settings. School desks cater with their broad arms to the rightie. And if you’re a leftie, forget throwing a boomerang.

‘Tis a real challenge for lefties to live in a right-handed universe; yet, in our PC world, there are those who are attempting to make things better for the maligned leftie.

I won’t call the name of the fast food restaurant, but a full-page ad once appeared in a leading newspaper, according to ‘News of the Weird’, heralding the arrival on the menu of the “Left-handed Biggie Burger,” designed, of course, for hungry lefties. Seems this new sandwich included all the ingredients on the regular “Biggie Burger,” except the condiments were “rotated 180 degrees, thereby redistributing the weight of the sandwich so that the bulk of the condiments (lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, meat patty) were skewed to the left, reducing the spillage out the right side of the burger.”

Even though the “Biggie Burger” was reported the next day to be a hoax, thousands of customers actually flocked into the chain’s restaurants to order the “Left-handed Biggie Burger” - the ultimate “Have-it-your-way!” touted in the fake ad.

Hey, southpaws of the world, unite! Tell these burger folks to quit fooling around and really rotate those condiments. And while they’re at it, in the Biggie Sack they can throw in a humdinger of a prize - a zig-zagging, flip flopping, left-handed boomerang.

It’s time for lefties to claim their rightful place in society. I mean, the right half of the brain controls the left half of the body, right? That can only mean one thing, at least in the area of bumper sticker philosophy, which is this:

Left-handers, my friends, are obviously the only ones in their right mind.

Go ahead, lefties; clip this column.

[Beth Jacks is an author, freelance columnist, and editor of usadeepsouth.com. She loves Texas and visits often from her home base in Mississippi. Write her at bethjacks@hotmail.com]



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And, can't pass up an opportunity to help people with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. . . have you ever asked your Chiropractor what to do? from SFbackpainDoctor.com

Carpal Tunnel Symptoms and Cervical Disc Herniations

We have been helping patients with carpal tunnel symptoms for many years now in downtown San Francisco. We have also successfully treated our fair share of cervical disc herniations. In fact...some of the patients with carpal tunnel symptoms also had herniated discs in the neck. Is there a connection between carpal tunnel symptoms and cervical disc herniations? Great question...and the answer is YES. Here's how they are connected:

The nerves that exit from in between the bones in the lower part of the neck travel down the arm and into the hands. These cervical nerves are prone to pressure from herniated and bulging discs in the neck as they branch off the spinal cord.

When there is pressure on a cervical nerve root it can cause problems at the target cells...in this case the hands. Symptoms like hand pain, numbness and tingling in the hands, burning, weakness, loss of grip strength, and night pain are classic carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) symptoms.

CTS occurs when there is pressure on the median nerve in the carpal tunnel...an opening in the bend of the wrist. The median nerve is one of the branches of nerves that originates in the neck. So how can I tell if my carpal tunnel symptoms are from the neck or hand?

It's really hard sometimes to make this determination yourself...it's best to see a carpal tunnel expert...a doctor that treats lots of CTS, like we do at Executive Express Chiropractic in the SF Financial District. Honestly...true CTS is rare...but CTS symptoms are common and are usually the result of pressure on the cervical nerves from misaligned vertebrae (Subluxations), tight muscles, degenerated discs, bulging discs, and cervical disc herniations.

I know it sounds complicated, but it's not...and neither is the treatment. Sometimes we can fix a problem in a few sessions...sometimes it takes months...it just depends on the severity. Sometimes we can't help at all...but that's rare. The moral of the story is to go see someone that treats CTS day in and day out...it will be worth the effort (sometimes an expert is hard to find).

If you have CTS symptoms and would like to find out if you are a candidate for care at Executive Express Chiropracticat the SF Embarcadero Center...call 415-392-2225 or request an appointment online.



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The computer mouse plays an awesome roll in our lives. It makes our life easier or causes us much pain. Here's gadget electronic news about keeping your kids protected online. . .

Safety Device Protects Kids Online
Group Of Arizonans Behind PG Key Invention
Jeff Butera Reporter, KPHO.com

PHOENIX -- At her grandmother’s house in Scottsdale, second-grader Keile Pioth maneuvered a computer mouse, playing an Internet-based game called “Club Penguin.”

“Club Penguin” and the Disney Channel’s webpage are where Keile spends most of her time online. But her father, Joshua Horvill, knows there are far more dangerous things lurking on the Internet. He knows predators and pornography could just be a click away.

“It’s extremely upsetting to hear about it,” Horvill said, referring to all the stories he has seen about the dangers of the Internet. Because of the dangers, Horvill said his daughter is not allowed to go on the computer if he is not around, “because I’m not able to be there to supervise the whole entire time.” But Paul Ranheim, a former NHL hockey player with the Phoenix Coyotes, has teamed up with two other Arizona colleagues to create a product that might help parents like Horvill.

The product is called PG Key. It is a device that is inserted into your computer and is easily installed, according to Ranheim. The product does three main things for a parent:

After the product is installed, the computer cannot run without PG Key plugged in. Your child can not use the Internet without your knowledge if you control PG Key. PG Key has partnered with Google to create a ‘safe search.’ Around 2,000 dangerous websites are blocked when the device is plugged in. Parents can add other websites to that blocked list. PG Key records what is happening on the computer screen when it is plugged in. Parents can then review the video of what their child has been doing while online and make sure nothing inappropriate was viewed.

“Let’s not spy on them. They know it’s there. It’s clear. Let’s not watch the train wreck. Let’s prevent it,” said Ranheim. “The child knowing that there is a potential for everything they do (to be watched) as if the parent is sitting next to them will change their behavior,” Ranheim said.

The product is in the early stages of being launched.

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That's about it for today. There's much interesting warm mouse technology news to post here everyday. Keep your mouse hand healthy. Keep your keyboard hands warm using an ergonomic keyboard wrist pad to support your wrists and help relieve the stress. And, whenever you decide to reduce your energy bills using USB Heat, remember the best place to start is online! Easy to remember Warm Mouse Heated Keyboard!



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Cool computer mouse designs warm your spirit!

The ValueRays Ergonomic Computer WARM Mouse looks very cool and feels even greater! It is a Warm Mouse and delivers deep healing infrared heat to an aching mouse hand. Don't be without a ValueRays WARM MOUSE!

If you are a true warrior why not clutch this WarCraft Designer Computer Mouse! Its futuristic design helps your time traveling through cyberspace.

I've never had the need to wash a computer mouse, but if you do, this nifty designer computer mouse is washable. No warm water needed! Keeping things handled clean nowadays is important. What kind of demand is there for a washable mouse?

All the guys I know would like this collection. Maybe a novelty for a desk top shelf. The car shaped mouse would hurt my hand. If you decide to buy one of the car shaped mice, make sure you grap the ValueRays Warm Mouse, too. You'll need the therapeutic infrared heat after using the car shaped mouse for a few hours!


Looks cool. How does it feel? Need to try one of the finger mice. I wonder if my hand would hurt after using it for a few hours. If so, I guess the heated mouse wins again!


Bamboo is an earth-friendly product being more widely used these days because it is inexpensive and natural. This sleek model would look nice on any desk top. Yet, as far as energy-efficiency goes, I believe the ValueRays Warm Mouse wins again..... why turn up the heat when you can hold a Warm Mouse by ValueRays!

I especially like the multi-functionality of the keyboard computer mouse. Flip the clear lid and a numeric keypad makes calculations easy. Another novelty for the geek who has everything.

Of all the computer gadgets available, the computer mouse seems to be the device with the most designs. A designer computer mouse comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, styles and functionalities. I especially like the ValueRays Warm Mouse because it's not only nice to look at but it makes me feel really good and warm all over!

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With all the computer mice we own, the roller style computer mouse with the ball is still a favorite of many computer users. Here's a HOW TO post to help keep your Computer Roller Mouse clean and rolling smoothly!

How to Clean a Computer Roller Mouse
from Click for How-To


The mouse is an integral part of your personal computer. It is the hand that turns the pages of various programs on. So, it is always important to keep your mouse clean and dust free. However, if you are using an optical scroll mouse then you will need less maintenance. These mice do not get dirty that easily. This article mainly stresses on the cleaning of a roller mouse. Check out the methods of cleaning them.

Switching Off the Power

Your first step would be to switch off the power to your computer and then disconnect the mouse from the CPU. It is also good idea to keep your computer manual handy in case you have one.

Separating the Roller Ball

Now, you can separate the roller ball under the mouse from its place. You can do this by rotating the ball cover. When you get stuck just give the mouse a shake so that ball cover and the ball falls on your other hand. Sometimes even the shake is not necessary.

Clean the Ball

Start cleaning the mouse by cleaning the ball first. Generally it is seen that a ball does not accumulate too much dirt. But do a thorough check to satisfy yourself. Use a soft, and clean cloth to wipe the mouse. Look for dusts, loose hairs on the ball. When it is clean put it in some clean place.

Clean the Rollers

You will find these rollers inside your mouse. There are three such rollers. These are the dirtiest parts of your mouse that needs special care. The dirt from the mouse ball and mouse pad gets attached to the rollers. You can put some cleaning liquids on a cloth and clean the rollers. Make sure that the cleaning substance is ideal for computers. Continue the cleaning process until you the rollers are completely dust free.

You can prevent your rollers from getting dirtied very often by cleaning your mouse pad regularly.

Joining

Once the cleaning is done attach the roller ball, and the ball cover to their usual places. Your mouse is ready to be reconnected to the computer.

Reconnecting and Testing

Reconnect the mouse to the computer and switch it on. Next step is to test the mouse. If your mouse is well cleaned then it will have a smooth and easy movement. You can detect it by the movement of the mouse on the pad and by the movement of the cursor on the screen. Make sure the mouse is well connected to the CPU and the ball cover is also well attached. Your mouse would not work in case of a loose connection.

Keep you mouse clean and you will see how well it moves.

Microsoft sues over patents

A heated warm mouse, do it for your mouse hand!

TomTom's GPS devices infringe on technology, software maker claims
By SUSAN DECKER - BLOOMBERG NEWS

Microsoft Corp. is seeking to block U.S. imports by Dutch navigation device maker TomTom NV after the two were unable to reach a patent-licensing agreement.

Microsoft said it filed a complaint Wednesday with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington and a civil suit in federal court in Seattle. The software maker claims TomTom global-positioning system devices infringe five patents related to car-navigation technology and three for file management.

This is the second time in seven months that Redmond-based Microsoft has filed a trade complaint to force resolution of a licensing dispute. A case against Taiwan's Primax Electronics Ltd. over computer mouse technology, filed in July, was settled by December.

"When a pragmatic business agreement cannot be reached, we feel we have no choice," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's general counsel for intellectual property licensing. "We remain open to quickly resolving the issue with them."

He said Microsoft had tried "for more than a year to engage in licensing discussions" with Amsterdam-based TomTom.

Microsoft's licensing program, begun five years ago, opens the company's patents to anyone willing to pay for access to the inventions. The company has struck more than 500 licensing deals, including ones with traditional rivals such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc., Gutierrez said.

Microsoft, which had $60.4 billion in sales for the year ended June 30, doesn't break out how much it makes in licensing revenue from its patents.

Garmin Ltd., TomTom's biggest rival, has a licensing agreement with Microsoft over MSN Direct, a program that provides traffic, flight and weather information to GPS devices.

The GPS patents cover ways to run multiple applications, provide "more natural" driving instructions, integrate with other devices and access the Web, Gutierrez said. The file-management patents relate to ways to name, organize and access data and to work better with flash memory, used to store music and image files.

Electronics makers Alpine Electronics Inc., Pioneer Corp. and JVC Kenwood Holdings Inc. license the patents, Gutierrez said.

The ITC's job is to protect U.S. markets from unfair trade practices such as patent infringement. If it agrees to investigate Microsoft's claim, the agency could complete its inquiry within 15 months. The civil suit is likely to be put on hold until the ITC case is completed.

USB heated computer mouse produces infrared heat

Infrared heat has healing effects. Deep penetrating heat rays sooth aching muscles and relieve pain. ValueRays infrared computer gadgets add value to your everyday computer activities by providing relief to aching sore and cold hands. ValueRays Computer Devices are made with a carbon fiber. Carbon fibers generate infrared heat. The sun is a natural source of infrared heat. ValueRays USB warming computer gadgets heat with infrared heat without using the harmful UV rays of the sun.

Infrared Rays Heal. The sun's natural Infrared Rays are capable of penetrating deep into the human body where they elevate surface temperature and activate healthy body functions. The Far-infrared waves are a safe alternative to natural sun Infrared Rays and a form of light energy that heat objects by direct light conversion - a process to directly warm an object (warm mouse and warm mouse pad), not the surrounding air. Infrared heat rays from the warming mouse and warming mouse pad penetrate the hand, warm the muscles, tissues and dilate the blood arteries. The infrared heating process allows blood to flow more freely through the cold, painful, tense hand.

Arthritis Symptoms You Should Know About

Pain from arthritis is dreadful for the person sitting at the computer working all day. If your hand, wrist or fingers ache, use infrared heated computer devices to soothe and relax tense muscles. The ValueRays Heated Mouse Pad delivers steady low warmth for your wrist and mouse hand. Mouse pads are normally cold. It's not a good working surface for someone with arthritis or poor circulation. Click here for more details.

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Rudy Silva
From e-healtharticles

Many people have arthritis symptoms and don't realize it. It takes a while to get full blown arthritis. It's something that gradually builds up and before you know it, you have arthritis and are seeing your doctor for medication. Any medication you take does not address the cause of arthritis and will not improve your condition.

If you show any arthritis symptoms, then expect to have arthritis 4-10 year down the road. Typically when people have symptoms, they just ignore them and actual don't recognize them as arthritis symptoms.

Here is a list of arthritis symptoms that you need to look out for. Each person will show different symptom because of the nutritional make up will be different.

· Dry scalp with dandruff
· Dry skin which shows a whitish in different parts of the body
· Ear has no ear wax
· Fingernails that are brittle or splitting
· Premature color change to gray
· Skin wrinkles in the neck area
· Ringing in the ears
· Complexion color is pale
· Stretch mark which appear after losing weight
· Rectum itching
· Accumulation of dried flakes at the corners of the eyes
· Nose is constantly itching
· Feeling stiffness when getting up in the morning
· Hands and legs get cold and clammy
· Bleeding gums
· Teeth have etch lines
· Varicose veins in the legs
· Being sterile

From this list of arthritis symptoms, you can see that many symptoms relate to your body being dry. One of the causes of arthritis is the lack of essential oils. If you lack oil in your body, you will have dryness throughout your body. You will lack the oil that provides the lubrication to the body joints.

You can have one or many of these arthritis symptoms. If you do, you can start at any age using the oils good for preventing arthritis. You can start eliminating those foods that are detrimental to your joints and health. Some times it takes awhile to eliminate specific foods from you eating habits. So the sooner you start the better.

Without the proper oil reaching your joints, your joints will slowly degrade. The cartilage of your joints will be dry and this causes friction. This friction causes heat that will help in the slow degradation of your joints. Because the cartilage has no blood vessels, nutritional oils cannot be directly delivered its cells. Oils have to be absorbed into the cartilage by osmosis.

Look over this list of arthritis symptoms and decide if you have one or more. Remember, arthritis takes many years to appear after the symptom does.

Rudy Silva has a degree in Physics and is a Natural Nutritionist. He is the author of Constipation, Acne, Hemorrhoid, and Fatty Acid ebooks. He writes a newsletter called "Natural Remedies Thatwork.com".

Hands off technology?

We've come a long way..... ValueRays Warm Mouse

from New Electronics
author Chris Shaw

When the computer mouse was introduced in 1968 at a presentation in San Francisco, it was used merely to demonstrate a working network system. Since this modest inauguration, it has become accepted as the standard format for negotiating computer screens. However, with the success of the Nintendo Wii and Apple’s iPhone, the 21st Century consumer market is more than comfortable with the concept of interfacing with computer systems in unconventional ways. So does this mean the beginning of the end for the humble mouse?

Anyone familiar with the film Minority Report will recall the technology used to perform the intricate forensic analysis. Computer displays were navigated by a series of complex hand gestures and without a mouse in sight. While you’d be forgiven for thinking that such technology is the stuff of a scriptwriter’s effulgent imagination, the movie’s science adviser Dr John Underkoffler was working stealthily on the real world implementation of these interfacing techniques. The technology is, unsurprisingly, comparable with the 2002 movie – even down to the gloves.

Described as a spatial operating environment (SOE), Oblong’s g-speak allows operators to ‘grab’ items from one screen and deposit them on to another.

Underkoffler, chief scientist with Los Angeles based Oblong Industries, is clearly not a fan of traditional interfacing techniques. “The mouse is a fairly constrained physical object,” he notes. “It has to sit on a surface and heavy use often leads to repetitive strain injuries. The mapping between the axes of mouse motion and the two axes of on screen pointer motion is indirect, so it would be nice to bypass it entirely and control pointer motion and position directly.”

The gestural interface not only challenges the traditional keyboard and mouse as primary interfacing tools, but is also set to become established in many consumer entertainment devices.

Stephen Prentice, vice president and fellow at electronics analyst, Gartner, predicts: “The keyboard is likely to remain the primary text entry device for the near future. However, the growing use of real time video interpretation and inertial sensors is enabling a more intuitive control interface in 3d environments.” Business leaders, he warns, must not ignore these trends. “As the consumerisation of IT proceeds, the separation between enterprise and personal devices – and their control metaphors – will become increasingly unsustainable.”

Warm Mouse for the Hand Warmer House

The mouse house hand warmer is a cozy blanket pouch to hold your favorite warm mouse and warm mouse pad. The three items together create the warmest mouse hand environment. The heat generated by the ValueRays Warm Mouse is captured under a cozy fleece blanket. It's like crawling under the covers of an electric blanket on a cold winter's night.

The ValueRays infrared heated mouse is therapuetic. Infrared heat heals. It relaxes stress and tension in the muscles of your hand. Only 20-30 minutes daily is known to fix hand pain. It certainly relieve cold mouse hand.

For more details, click here.

Which heated mouse pad do you like best?

4 Port Double Plug

4 Port Single Plug

When it comes to a heated mouse pad, there are specific functions each perform. The two heated mouse pads shown above have different characteristics. They both have warming effects, they both use USB plugs and they both have a smooth black mouse pad surface.

The heated mouse pad in the top photo has 4 USB ports to use for other connecting devices. There are two corded plugs. One of the cords controls the lights around the mouse pad's trim. The second plug controls the heat.

The heated mouse pad in the second photo has the same 4 USB ports but there's only one cord which means you have to unplug the unit when you log off the computer or the mouse pad will continue to produce heat.

Which of the two USB warm mouse pad designs do you like best?

A mouse warmer giveaway at Grammy Janet's Place

Visit Grammy Janet's Place today to enter a free giveaway for a Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pouch designed to keep your hand warm while you compute! Click here for more details.

Sponsored by IGMproducts.com

Mouse Hand Warmer - Designer Mouse House

Creates the Perfect Mouse Hand Environment

Bloggy giveaways heated at Grammy's pad

Looking to participate in this quarter's bloggy giveaway? Visit Grammy Janet's Place to enter the competition. Grammy Janet is sponsoring this giveaway as part of the Bloggy Giveaway Quarterly Carnival.

What's being given away? A Mouse Hand Warmer Blanket Pouch Mouse Pad! It's in the photo above. The soft, cozy fleece keeps your mouse hand covered. It'll give you a warm, fuzzy feeling all over!

Not sure what a free giveaway is all about? Click Here to enter Grammy's place and read all about it!

Infrared heaters relieve cold mouse pad hand pain

Hand pain associated with computer work is a common condition, especially for people who spend most of their day sitting and working at a computer using a computer mouse. To relieve the pain, a person either stops working or finds a solution. Infrared heaters are available to help relieve cold hand pain associated with using a computer mouse. A heated warm mouse and a heated warm mouse pad both contain a carbon fibre heating filament which heat up quickly to produce a healthy, healing computer hand environment. The infrared heat has massaging and sterilization qualities, and some say detoxifying and healing qualities, too.

An infrared heater is a body with a higher temperature which transfers energy to a body with a lower temperature through electromagnetic radiation. The most common filament material used for electrical infrared heaters is tungsten wire, which is coiled to provide more surface area. Low temperature alternatives for tungsten are carbon, or alloys of iron, chromium and aluminum (brand name ‘kanthal’). While carbon filaments are more fickle to produce, they heat up much quicker than a comparable medium-wave heater based on a FeCrAl filament. Theoretically, the efficiency of an infrared heater is 100% as it converts nearly all electrical energy into heat in the filament. The filament then emits its heat by infrared radiation that is directly or via a reflector impinging on the product to be heated.

An USB heated warming mouse uses infrared radiation to directly heat the user. IR heaters are used to provide warmth to suckling animals whose mother cannot or will not provide them with natural warmth as well as to captive animals in zoos or veterinary clinics, especially for lizards and other reptiles, and tropical animals such as birds.

Photo Courtesy of Crystal Sauna.
Infrared light, as radiated by the Sun, lies between the Visible and Microwave sectors of the electromagnetic spectrum.

What is infrared?
Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than that of visible light, but shorter than that of radio waves. The radiation hits the surface of the body and heats through a process called conversion, instead of heating the air around you.

Infrared promoters state that infrared radiant heat is safe and beneficial, claiming that the heat penetrates into the body. The argument is based on the idea that the wavelengths of far infrared waves are typically between 5.8 and 1000 micrometers. The infrared rays help knock toxins from the body, and those toxins are then released through the skin. They claim this heals and stimulates tissues, and that it is effective therapy for arthritis and tissue injuries.

Heated Mouse Pad Keeps Your Fingers Toasty

by Terrence O'Brien


In keeping with our legal requirement to cover everything that plugs into a USB port, we present you with the heated USB mouse pad.

With the winter months quickly kicking into gear, those of us with substandard heating in our homes and apartments will be looking for ways to stay toasty while sitting in front of our PCs. Of course, wrapping yourself in blankets and drinking cup after cup of hot cocoa won't keep your extremities consistently warm. And while you can put on big fuzzy slippers, typing in mittens is all but impossible.

But for 1,980 yen (about $20) you can pick up a USB-powered heated mousepad that will keep your digits, and your pointing device of choice, heated.

Amapedia defines warm mouse pad

Heated warm mouse pads come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and designs. Amapedia defines a mouse hand warmer as a blanket pouch to keep your mouse hand covered and warm. The mouse hand warmer on Amapedia is available on Amazon. Search Mouse Hand Warmer on Amazon.com. This is a nifty idea because it uses no electricity to keep your hand warm. Plus, it's a heated mouse pad without any cords to get tangled on your desk. It's also large enough to hold any size mouse and another mouse pad if desired. If you have your favorite mouse and pad, it'll fit nicely inside this 12" x 12" blanket pouch.

For more information visit Amazon.com, Click Here.

USB Heated Warm Mouse Pad Reviews

We just received the above item today and are currently using it to evaluate it's functionality and effectiveness. It's a 2.0 USB 4 Port Hub Heated Mouse Pad. The size is about 9" x 7" not including the metal hub attached to one end. There are two USB cords. One cord controls the lights and the second cord controls the heater warming function of the mouse pad. It's a very nice system with its pros and cons.

The Pros:

• Heat source provides a very soothing warmth for the mouse hand and wrist.
• Size is just right for a small hand
• Lights are a steady blue glow which is very nice at night
• Two plugs allow for the item to be energy efficient
• Pad is a very smooth hard surface black
• It looks very nice on the desk
• It fits inside the Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pouch
• It creates a very nice warmth inside the Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pouch

The Cons:

• There's no wrist pad support
• Pad's surface could be a little larger for better mouse movement
• Cords are not labeled making it difficult to know which is for light/heat

All-in-all, for the price, it's a good unit. We are planning to evaluate another USB heated warm mouse pad and will post our assessment here. If you are interested in receiving more information about the above item or other USB warming devices, please click here.

Heated mouse pad illuminates with color

The USB heated warm mouse pad has a colorful illuminated trim. It lights up when turned on and illuminates either a steady glow of blue or multiple flashes of different colors. It's a very suttle glow of light and looks very good in the dark. The USB cord to make the mouse pad function as a heater is plugged in when heat is needed and unplugged when heat is not necessary. The heat is a soothing source of warmth for a cold mouse hand or pain caused by arthritis or other medical conditions like carpal tunnel or poor circulation. Benefits of using a heated warm mouse pad iclude:

• Delivers heat from the mouse pad
  
• Helps increase circulation and relieve tension
  
• Helps relieve pain from arthritis
  
• Helps relieve cold from poor circulation
  

Keeps your mouse hand warm; especially the palm of your hand and wrist where most computer hand pain originates and resides. If you suffer with cold hands due to Poor Ciculation, Arthritis or other conditions affecting the hand and wrist like Carpal Tunnel, Raynaud’s phenomenon, de Quervain's tenosynovitis syndrome, Tendonitis or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, a heated mouse pad can help. Cold hands and wrists associated with these medical conditions can be soothed by using a heated warming mouse pad.

Massaging Mouse Pad

The ZSOLT Massaging Mouse Pad shown above was designed to effectively reduce and prevent the effects of Cumulative Trauma Disorders that can lead to reduced work efficiency and eventual loss of work, time and earnings. The product accomplishes these tasks by supporting the hand in a natural position while offering a relaxing massage to the muscles involved in moving the mouse.


Similarly, a heated mouse pad can do the same. It reduces tension and stress in the hand and wrist while using the computer mouse. The wrist pad supports the arm on a smooth surface. Soothing heat keeps the hand warm if you suffer from poor ciruclation or work in a drafty space.


There are a variety of mouse pads designed to address medical problems and cold mouse hand conditions. Click here for more info.

The Gadget Chick great idea mouse warmer pad

Electronic Gadget - Mouse Hand Warmer Mouse Pad Computer Mouse

What a great idea. If you use a computer a lot you may want this. I know when I worked in an office and did a lot of comptuer work the hand I had on the mouse would be freezing. I should have had this little electronic gadget then.

The Mouse Hand Warmer is new, and there’s nothing like it on the market. The perfect gift idea for computer users.