WEBVTT 00:00:09.040 --> 00:00:14.719 write faster. If we don't get 10 scripts written by the time Lionus gets back, 00:00:13.360 --> 00:00:17.719 he's going to make us go to the lucky room. 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:22.600 I'm so scared. 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:31.119 Not the lucky room. Sir. Sir, they're moving as fast as they 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:35.040 can, but having to move their hands from the mouse to the keyboard is taking up 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:40.840 valuable time. Not to mention the repetitive motion is straining their 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:40.840 hands. I do mo 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:13.920 Yeah. Not today, Lucky. NOT TODAY. YEAH. 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:20.080 YEAH. Uh that's that's not what it's 00:01:17.119 --> 00:01:25.490 like to use this thing. It's kind of janky, but it's actually 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:33.840 not as janky as it looks. 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:41.200 The roller mouse red wireless belongs to that kooky corner of the tech industry 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:46.479 that doesn't try to give us the coolest looking, most gamerific products to help 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:51.360 us get more head shot. No, the tribe that this gadget belongs to is the one 00:01:48.479 --> 00:01:55.840 trying to delay the slow death by sitting that all heavy PC users 00:01:53.360 --> 00:02:00.479 inevitably fall victim to. And if they have to make a weird rolly wrist rest 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:05.759 mouse thing to do that, by golly, so be it. They're saving your life for Pete's 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:08.239 sake. Now, the idea according to 00:02:05.759 --> 00:02:12.640 Contour, who makes the roller mouse, is that the motion of moving your hand over 00:02:10.640 --> 00:02:17.760 to your mouse and back to your keyboard is one of the major culprits that can 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.599 cause repetitive strain injury or RSI. 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:23.760 Moving your hand down a few inches instead of a foot or so to the side is 00:02:22.239 --> 00:02:29.760 definitely an improvement in that regard, but how effective is it? Whereas 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:34.400 other ergonomic mouse designs like vertical mice allow your hand to rest in 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:38.239 a neutral handshake like position, the roller mouse still requires you to 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:42.800 pronate your wrist. That means your wrist is rotated inward causing the 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:48.400 radius and ulna bones in your ARM to crisscross. So while it eliminates that 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:53.599 repetitive side motion, it's still not perfectly ergonomic. 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:58.160 But are any of us? Now, I called this thing weird earlier, but as far as 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:03.840 ergonomic peripherals go, the roller mouse doesn't look that bad. I mean, 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:09.440 yeah, the concept of using a big roller as your mouse is unusual, but the whole 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:11.920 device itself looks kind of classy. Its 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:15.599 structure is metal with a silver, black, and red aesthetic and these nice 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:20.800 leatherrett coverings on the wrist rest. Hm. It does not look or feel like a 00:03:18.959 --> 00:03:27.519 cheap device that will break after a couple weeks, which is good because it's 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:30.000 not cheap. It's 265 bucks. Like, really? 00:03:27.519 --> 00:03:34.799 But the price might be worth it if it saves you some trips to the chiropractor 00:03:31.760 --> 00:03:37.280 to fix your screwed up shoulder. Do you 00:03:34.799 --> 00:03:39.280 go to the chiropractor for that? Is that physiootherapist? 00:03:38.959 --> 00:03:45.760 Yeah. Acupuncture. So, here's how the roller mouse works. 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:49.920 Rolling the bar up or down translates to vertical mouse movement and sliding the 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:54.799 bar translates to horizontal mouse movement. It ends up feeling a lot like 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:58.319 using a trackpad on a laptop from an alien planet where everyone has wheels 00:03:56.959 --> 00:04:02.319 for hands and this was the best solution they could come up with. Now you can 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:06.799 either click by pushing down on the roller bar itself or by using the 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:10.480 surprisingly high quality leftclick button on the module below the roller 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:16.000 bar. There you'll also find buttons for the right click, double click, copy, 00:04:13.040 --> 00:04:20.239 paste, cursor speed, and a scroll wheel, which also serves as a middle click. On 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.080 the left side is a micro USB port for charging. Contour claims it can last 3 00:04:22.320 --> 00:04:29.600 months on a single charge. And on the bottom, there's the power switch and a 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:31.440 little cavity to hold the USB dongle. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:36.240 Using the roller mouse is, as I mentioned, a lot like using the trackpad 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:39.680 on your laptop. And because of that, I was able to adapt to it pretty quickly. 00:04:37.919 --> 00:04:44.160 Initially, I found it necessary to move both hands down to use my uh right hand 00:04:42.320 --> 00:04:48.240 for the roller bar and click with my left hand. But after a few hours, 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:52.400 one-handed use was no problem. I found the best style for me is to manipulate 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:56.639 the roller bar with one finger, the scroll wheel with another, and use my 00:04:54.320 --> 00:05:00.639 thumb to left click since you can remap the double click button to also serve as 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:04.160 a left, right, or middle click. There are a few other minor customization 00:05:02.479 --> 00:05:08.080 options here as well, like changing the force required to activate the click on 00:05:05.919 --> 00:05:12.080 the roller bar or disabling the click altogether. Now, this being an ergonomic 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:16.800 device, there are also some things you can do to make the whole setup more 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:20.320 ergonomic. It comes with these risers that can raise or lower your keyboard's 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:23.600 height and angle to be flat with the roller mouse. And there's also two other 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:28.479 types of wrist rest attachments available. The red plus palm support for 00:05:25.919 --> 00:05:34.960 20 bucks and the ARM support red for another 150 bucks. What? No. 00:05:33.280 --> 00:05:41.520 Wait, is this product 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:43.520 dumb? It might be. See, while the 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:47.759 touchpad like nature of the roller mouse makes it easy to learn, it also makes 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:52.479 the benefits a real touchpad has over the roller mouse much more obvious. 00:05:50.479 --> 00:05:56.080 Pinch to zoom and two-finger scrolling are the obvious examples, but a number 00:05:54.400 --> 00:06:00.880 of people in the office also remarked that the roller bar design seems less 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:05.840 responsive and precise than their laptop trackpad. Moving the bar all the way to 00:06:03.280 --> 00:06:10.400 the right or left will make the cursor snap to that side of the screen. So, at 00:06:08.080 --> 00:06:14.160 times you can't just drag the mouse directly to where you want it. The 00:06:11.919 --> 00:06:18.160 cursor will often go past your intended destination and then you have to bring 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:21.600 it back. Now, to be fair, I used this on my Ultraoid monitor at my desk, and it 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:27.520 was more of a problem there than it would be on a regular 16x9 display. But 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:31.600 still, with all these buttons, I wish they'd have programmed one of them to 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:35.919 pause mouse movement like on the key mouse that James reviewed, so I can, you 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:41.400 know, recenter the bar. That might have helped with the feeling that I was 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:41.400 fighting the cursor sometimes. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:50.960 And like I mentioned earlier, while you are skipping the lateral motion of 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:55.440 reaching for your mouse, which could be the solution for your particular elbow 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:59.199 RSI, for example, it doesn't solve everything. Your wrist is still 00:06:57.039 --> 00:07:03.039 pronated, and you're still dealing with er deviation while using the roller bar 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:07.680 that is laterally bending your wrist like this. So, while the roller mouse 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:12.479 might be better ergonomically for people with certain RSIs, I don't think I'd 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:18.160 recommend it for the general public. Now, that said, I do find this whole 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:20.639 idea of integrating a wrist rest with a 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:24.000 mouse to be pretty interesting. And while reviewing the roller mouse, there 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:28.240 were times where I liked having the mouse control right there already under 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:32.639 my fingertips. What I think would be really cool though is something like 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:37.199 this but with a touchpad so I could also use gestures like pinch to zoom and 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:41.280 two-finger scrolling. Sadly, while there are a number of other wrist rest devices 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:46.720 with a similar roller bar type of design, I couldn't find any wrist rest 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:50.800 touch pads. Now, you can buy good desktop touch pads for less than half 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:56.080 the price of this thing if you want to try it out. It's really too bad the 00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:58.720 roller mouse is so expensive. 00:07:56.080 --> 00:08:01.759 I really wanted to believe. All right, thanks for watching, guys. If this video 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:05.520 sucked, you know what to do. But if it was awesome, get subscribed, hit the 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:10.240 like button, or check out the link below to where to buy the stuff we featured. 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:13.599 Uh, probably won't be this. Uh, maybe some touchpads or something. 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