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write faster. If we don't get 10 scripts written by the time Lionus gets back,

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he's going to make us go to the lucky room.

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I'm so scared.

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Not the lucky room. Sir. Sir, they're moving as fast as they

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can, but having to move their hands from the mouse to the keyboard is taking up

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valuable time. Not to mention the repetitive motion is straining their

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hands. I do mo

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Yeah. Not today, Lucky. NOT TODAY. YEAH.

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YEAH. Uh that's that's not what it's

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like to use this thing. It's kind of janky, but it's actually

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not as janky as it looks.

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The roller mouse red wireless belongs to that kooky corner of the tech industry

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that doesn't try to give us the coolest looking, most gamerific products to help

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us get more head shot. No, the tribe that this gadget belongs to is the one

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trying to delay the slow death by sitting that all heavy PC users

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inevitably fall victim to. And if they have to make a weird rolly wrist rest

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mouse thing to do that, by golly, so be it. They're saving your life for Pete's

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sake. Now, the idea according to

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Contour, who makes the roller mouse, is that the motion of moving your hand over

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to your mouse and back to your keyboard is one of the major culprits that can

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cause repetitive strain injury or RSI.

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Moving your hand down a few inches instead of a foot or so to the side is

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definitely an improvement in that regard, but how effective is it? Whereas

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other ergonomic mouse designs like vertical mice allow your hand to rest in

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a neutral handshake like position, the roller mouse still requires you to

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pronate your wrist. That means your wrist is rotated inward causing the

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radius and ulna bones in your arm to crisscross. So while it eliminates that

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repetitive side motion, it's still not perfectly ergonomic.

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But are any of us? Now, I called this thing weird earlier, but as far as

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ergonomic peripherals go, the roller mouse doesn't look that bad. I mean,

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yeah, the concept of using a big roller as your mouse is unusual, but the whole

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device itself looks kind of classy. Its

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structure is metal with a silver, black, and red aesthetic and these nice

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leatherrett coverings on the wrist rest. Hm. It does not look or feel like a

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cheap device that will break after a couple weeks, which is good because it's

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not cheap. It's 265 bucks. Like, really?

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But the price might be worth it if it saves you some trips to the chiropractor

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to fix your screwed up shoulder. Do you

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go to the chiropractor for that? Is that physiootherapist?

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Yeah. Acupuncture. So, here's how the roller mouse works.

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Rolling the bar up or down translates to vertical mouse movement and sliding the

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bar translates to horizontal mouse movement. It ends up feeling a lot like

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using a trackpad on a laptop from an alien planet where everyone has wheels

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for hands and this was the best solution they could come up with. Now you can

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either click by pushing down on the roller bar itself or by using the

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surprisingly high quality leftclick button on the module below the roller

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bar. There you'll also find buttons for the right click, double click, copy,

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paste, cursor speed, and a scroll wheel, which also serves as a middle click. On

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the left side is a micro USB port for charging. Contour claims it can last 3

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months on a single charge. And on the bottom, there's the power switch and a

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little cavity to hold the USB dongle.

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Using the roller mouse is, as I mentioned, a lot like using the trackpad

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on your laptop. And because of that, I was able to adapt to it pretty quickly.

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Initially, I found it necessary to move both hands down to use my uh right hand

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for the roller bar and click with my left hand. But after a few hours,

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one-handed use was no problem. I found the best style for me is to manipulate

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the roller bar with one finger, the scroll wheel with another, and use my

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thumb to left click since you can remap the double click button to also serve as

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a left, right, or middle click. There are a few other minor customization

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options here as well, like changing the force required to activate the click on

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the roller bar or disabling the click altogether. Now, this being an ergonomic

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device, there are also some things you can do to make the whole setup more

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ergonomic. It comes with these risers that can raise or lower your keyboard's

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height and angle to be flat with the roller mouse. And there's also two other

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types of wrist rest attachments available. The red plus palm support for

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20 bucks and the arm support red for another 150 bucks. What? No.

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Wait, is this product

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dumb? It might be. See, while the

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touchpad like nature of the roller mouse makes it easy to learn, it also makes

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the benefits a real touchpad has over the roller mouse much more obvious.

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Pinch to zoom and two-finger scrolling are the obvious examples, but a number

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of people in the office also remarked that the roller bar design seems less

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responsive and precise than their laptop trackpad. Moving the bar all the way to

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the right or left will make the cursor snap to that side of the screen. So, at

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times you can't just drag the mouse directly to where you want it. The

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cursor will often go past your intended destination and then you have to bring

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it back. Now, to be fair, I used this on my Ultraoid monitor at my desk, and it

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was more of a problem there than it would be on a regular 16x9 display. But

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still, with all these buttons, I wish they'd have programmed one of them to

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pause mouse movement like on the key mouse that James reviewed, so I can, you

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know, recenter the bar. That might have helped with the feeling that I was

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fighting the cursor sometimes.

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And like I mentioned earlier, while you are skipping the lateral motion of

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reaching for your mouse, which could be the solution for your particular elbow

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RSI, for example, it doesn't solve everything. Your wrist is still

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pronated, and you're still dealing with er deviation while using the roller bar

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that is laterally bending your wrist like this. So, while the roller mouse

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might be better ergonomically for people with certain RSIs, I don't think I'd

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recommend it for the general public. Now, that said, I do find this whole

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idea of integrating a wrist rest with a

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mouse to be pretty interesting. And while reviewing the roller mouse, there

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were times where I liked having the mouse control right there already under

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my fingertips. What I think would be really cool though is something like

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this but with a touchpad so I could also use gestures like pinch to zoom and

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two-finger scrolling. Sadly, while there are a number of other wrist rest devices

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with a similar roller bar type of design, I couldn't find any wrist rest

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touch pads. Now, you can buy good desktop touch pads for less than half

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the price of this thing if you want to try it out. It's really too bad the

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roller mouse is so expensive.

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