New 3D mouse

[islandmon]

Check out the new Axsotic 3D mouse:

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[img:left]http://www.gizmag.com/axsotic-3d-spheric-mouse-precision-digital-object-manipulation/16832/picture/123940/[/img]

[Bob Holtzmann]

My first reaction to this is -- Great! A better ergonomic mouse! It operates with the hand palm-up, eliminating stress on the "superficial branch of the radial nerve" of the arm. But then I realized that it's not really a mouse, but a cursor/view positioner. No clicker. So the user is still left using his more stressful mouse in the other hand.

Edited November 6, 2010 by Bob-H

[Bob Holtzmann]

Further on, I think it would be great if this 3D cursor tool could split up the click?drag operation, so that the mouse/trackpad could do the click, while the 3D cursor would do the drag. As a result, nerve stress could be avoided. I just tried this out with the trackpad button (left hand), and using the mouse for drag only (right hand), and it works! I may just use this method from now on.

This gives cause to generally re-think click-drag as a two-handed operation, for health reasons.

Edited November 7, 2010 by Bob-H