Computer mouse gadgets electronic warm finds, tips & gizmos

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.

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Easy Help for Hurting Hands
from the National Women's Health Resource Center's e-newsletter, HealthyWomen Take 10

To stay fit, we work on strengthening everything from our hearts to our calf muscles. Our hands often get no exercise attention at all—that is, until they start hurting.

Hands may ache from repetitive motion or overuse if you enjoy tennis or other racquet sports, have a computer-based job or play a musical instrument. Arthritis also causes hand pain. Even without those specific stressors, the numerous bones, muscles and ligaments in our hands and fingers literally carry the load of many daily activities and sometimes hurt as a result.

Hand stretches and exercises to build strength and flexibility are effective ways to keep your hands pain-free. The following hand helpers take just a few minutes; done daily, they can ease the ache.

Hand Helper #1: Simple Stretch
Open hand flat.
Make a fist, keeping thumb straight, outside fist.
Slide fingertips up palm until they come close to the base of your fingers (or as close as you can without feeling pain).
Hold stretch for a few seconds.

Hand Helper #2: Hand-Wrist Stretch
Open hand flat.
Make a fist, keeping thumb straight, outside fist.
Bend wrist downward toward palm.
Straighten fingers and stretch wrist in opposite direction.
Repeat for each hand, up to 10 times.

Hand Helper #3: Squeeze Play
Scrunch a piece of paper into a small ball in your hand.
Squeeze and repeat. (We told you these were easy!)
You can also do this exercise with a tennis ball or small, flexible rubber ball.

Hand Helper #4: Thumbs Up
Hold hand flat, palm up.
Bring thumb in to touch the base of the little finger.
Swing thumb away and back out to side.
Then touch thumb to each fingertip, one by one, forming an "O."
Repeat several times.

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Air Conditioned Offices are just about ready to kick-in again this year. That makes it really chilly for many people who sit and work at the computer all day! So, to fix the overly A/C'd office use the ValueRays Warm Mouse and ValueRays Warm Mouse Pad inside the Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pouch. They are all available online at affordable prices with free shipping and no sales tax. You may want to suggest USB Heaters to your boss, too. It may help reduce the onset of Repetititive Strain Injuries like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

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Curing Wrist and Hand Pain
from Good Health 'n You

In most cases of pain in the wrist and hand, cervical manipulation is the treatment of choice. Patients respond rapidly to the treatment and all symptoms disappear within two or three weeks.

Pain in the wrist and hand may be due to varied factors. These may be :

• A mechanical disturbance in the cervical spine.
• Pressure on the median nerve as it passes in front of the wrist between the tunnel formed by the small bones of the wrist called carpal bones.
• Arthritis of the wrist joint.
• Post-traumatic or following the union of fractured bones of the wrist and hand.

Often pain along with a tingling sensation and numbness in the fingers may radiate from the cervical spine. When the thumb is painful, the sixth cervical may be involved. When the middle and index fingers are painful, this may be due to the involvement of the seventh cervical nerve. When the little finger is painful, this may be due to the eighth cervical nerve.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The median nerve passes anteriorly in the wrist through the tunnel formed by the small bones of the wrist. It provides nerve supply to three and a half fingers of the hand (thumb, index finger, middle finger and half of the ring finger). When this nerve is compressed while passing through the tunnel – numbness, a tingling sensation, and pain are caused in these fingers. This condition is most common in women of middle age. In the early stages, it occurs for short periods but may become continuous later. It is more severe at night and patients may wake up due to a distressing tingling in the hand, and may have to work the fingers and shake the hand to get relief. There is clumsiness in carrying out finger movements. Sewing and stitching become difficult. If the condition persists for a long time, weakness and a wasting of the small muscles of the hand which are supplied by the median nerve occurs.

A young woman had an acute pain in the neck, which subsided in course of time, but tingling, numbness and pain persisted in the thumb. Anti-inflammatory drugs decreased the pain and other symptoms. Fifteen days later she returned with the same numbness, tingling and pain in the first three and a half fingers. She also complained of pain over the wrist on exertion of pressure. She was injected with cortisone in the carpal tunnel, and felt a lot better for three weeks. Then the pain reappeared.

She came to me with the above history. I manipulated her cervical spine, articulated and mobilised her wrist and hand, and strapped her wrist to provide partial immobilisation. She felt considerable relief. This treatment was repeated once more after one week and she was completely cured after the third treatment, never again complaining of the same problem.

In my practice, I have treated quite a few cases of pain that has persisted for 5-10 years with apparent wasting of the small muscles of the hand. Inn such cases treatment was continued for 2-3 months. The results were encouraging: there was a persistent improvement in pain and decrease in muscle wasting. Arthritis and post-fracture pain in the wrist, and numbness in the fingers responded well to articulatory and manipulative treatment of the hand, followed by strapping.

Diagnosis
To differentiate between a cervical disc lesion and pressure on the median nerve in the carpal tunnel is sometimes difficult. The history of the course of the disease is informative. Carpal tunnel pain increases with the use of the hand. The pain is located at the anterior aspect of the first three and a half fingers; there is no numbness above the wrist, though it might ache.

In a cervical disc lesion, the patient feels pins and needles come and go day or night in an erratic manner, lasting not more than half an hour to one hour at a time. If the arm is elevated and held in that position for 2-3 minutes, numbness and tingling occur in 20-30 seconds. In a few cases where diagnosis is not easy, improvement following manipulation helps to make a correct diagnosis.

Wasting and weakness of the hand muscles do not usually occur in cases which are detected early. In quite a few cases where surgery is performed, the cause of the compression on the nerve is not always known, the nerve and other structures appearing to be normal.

Treatment
Articulation of the wrist and hand followed by strapping gives encouraging results. In case of a cervical involvement, the cervical spine should be manipulated. Contraindication. Manipulation of the hand and wrist are not done in cases of rheumatoid arthritis.

A cold work environment is not good for the hands or the wrists. The cold creates stiff joints and poor circulation making it difficult to use fingers to type or use the computer. Get your blood flowing properly to help keep you warm while using the computer. To create the perfect warm hand environment at work use a Mouse Hand Warmer blanket pouch with the ValueRays Warm Mouse and ValueRays Warm Mouse Pad.