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Offline fohat.digs

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Left Hand Joy Mouse
« on: Wed, 14 November 2012, 16:01:06 »
I was skeptical about the vertical until I bought one a few weeks ago.

The knock-off Joy Pen is great, and I quickly came to love it. I am not a gamer, so poor specs don't matter to me.

But I really want a left-hand mouse, and the only style that is apparently available does not appeal to me, besides being very expensive.

I have large hands and dry skin, so it has to have the combination of a bigger size and a texture that is not slippery. I also like the slight angle or lean of the Joy, the others seem far too upright.

Google search and ebay/amazon do not return viable options for me.

Thanks!
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Re: Left Hand Joy Mouse
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 13 December 2012, 11:56:26 »
Depending on how many buttons you need, try

DXT (ambi)
http://www.cityergonomics.com/

Evoluent VM4L (left)
http://www.evoluent.com/vm4l.htm

Penguin (ambi)
http://www.posturite.co.uk/mice-keyboard-devices/vertical-mice/penguin-mouse.html

Quill (left)
http://store.ergoguys.com/0270-0030.html

Hmm looks interesting (not really ambi, but I want one :D)
http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/forum.39196
« Last Edit: Thu, 13 December 2012, 12:03:10 by islisis »

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Re: Left Hand Joy Mouse
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 13 December 2012, 12:30:28 »
Thank you.

I bid on a Quill on ebay recently, but did not win it.

All those others look to be exactly what I don't want, a design similar to the Evoluent. I got a left-hand Evoluent and have used it for nearly a month, but I simply can't be comfortable with it. Too vertical, and too dependent on the thumb opposing the fingers.

I still think that the Joy Pen is the right configuration.
"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30