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Written by [t0rc]
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It's a mouse pad, that is meant to relieve your wrist from discomfort.
It has definite mod potential, and I may be capitalizing on that very
soon. Check out how it stacks up.
It's a mouse pad, that is meant to relieve your wrist from discomfort.
It has definite mod potential, and I may be capitalizing on that very
soon. Check out how it stacks up.
Today I picked up a Fellowes mouse pad/wrist pad combo. And found that it is slightly less than what I expected.
As you can see above, its not a bad looking addition. The problem comes
along with the wrist rest. Now the rest is supposed to help your wrist.
It does comfort it. . . with about 1" of padding. Its so thick that
your hand sits above your mouse, forcing you to bend your wrist
downward to get to the mouse. I could handle that, and was still in a
pretty good mood. . . until I tried to play a game. . .
You see the wrist rest? Well that moves. So it stays constantly under
your wrist, no matter how you turn it. An issue arises from this pad
though, it overlaps the mouse surface just enough so the back of your
mouse hits it. Sucessfully cutting the surface area that your moues has
to move around on, in half. The surface is actually a normal mousepad
rubber, but with fabric over top. The fabric slows down your movement a
little bit, and it seems as though you lose sensitivity with an optical
mouse.
The wrist rest was even annoying when just trying to navigate windows,
not to mention excessively a pain in the butt when you try to do
something that requires many mouse movements, like gaming or image
design. I spun the wrist rest around to see if it made a difference,
and from that I gained about .25" of extra surface. Not much at all.
The wrist rest does slide very easily with the mouse movements and you
won't have to worry about it getting stuck when your gaming. But you
may need to turn the sensitivity up all the way to get the full range
on the screen with the limited area of the mousepad.
The best thing about this mousepad is that it has rather high modding
potential. The mouse surface does come out so you could cut up a better
mouse surface and put it in the slot to improve movability. The bottom
is stood up some to provide some airspace under the whole piece, a
perfect area for some wiring to a USB port to light up some LEDs. I
might mod it in the not so far away future. Overall, I give this piece
of work, a 73. It would've scored lower but you have to give some
points for modibility. H3h. I think I just made a new word. I expected
more from this mouse/wrist setup but, it left me with miniature
bragging rights.
Pros:
looks okay; has modding potential; removable mouse surface.
| | Cons: Bad mouse surface; Wrist rest impairs mouse movement drastically, about 45%-50%; Loss of mouse sensitivity. |
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