Vertical Mouse

JJ_Egan

Anyone using or have tried one of the crop of vertical mice .
My Logitech M570 roller ball is on its last legs .
This is a top end vertical mice .
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Evoluent-Right-Handed-Wireless-Vertical/dp/B006P2594Y

AndyPix

Yes one of our users uses that exact one as he has problems with his wrist.


By all accounts it is very good.
(Iv had a play with it but it felt too strange using a mouse like that)

John_Gray

At £106, this is probably 15 x the price of an ordinary non-wireless Microsoft mouse. This is quite wicked...

Have the Anker and CSL vertical mice (at £13-£14) further down that page at "Compare to similar items" been tried?

JJ_Egan

Thanks looking at those as well .

If i did go for the link i posted i would probably go the Amazon Warehouse route at circa £65 .

Johnmcl7

A workmate uses this mouse and seems to get on well with it:

https://www.posturite.co.uk/penguin-mouse.html

Robisere

This is the Anker, I bought one for my OH:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wireless-Vertical-Ergonomic-Optical-1600DPI/dp/B00BIFNTMC/ref=pd_sim_147_12?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=QVA0CCHQ4YJP0TMEXKRJ

She has poor "extension" function in her Rhand, due to a botched hand operation. She found it worse than a normal mouse, caused her wrist pain because it was too large for her smaller hand.

esuhl

Have you considered the Logitech Marble Mouse (aka Trackman Marble)? It's a trackball, rather than a "normal" or vertical mouse.

It allows your hand to rest close-ish to the "handshake position" (although not as close as the vertical mice). And the buttons are operated by the thumb and ring-finger, saving my painfully over-worked index finger from any more left-clicking!

I started using the Marble Mouse with my left hand, leaving my right hand to rest.

Unlike a real mouse, I found it quite easy to use the trackball in my left hand. My RSI has been fine for a few years now, but I still use the Marble Mouse with my left hand. It's quite handy when you want to use the mouse and write at the same time!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-910-000808-USB-Marble-Mouse/dp/B001DQY9AW

JJ_Egan

Thanks already using the Logitech MX 570trackball and looking at replacements / alternatives.

Debbie_Savard

I bought the Anker mouse as it wasn't a big risk at £13 on Prime. I like it, maybe something I'd alternate with a traditional mouse to avoid always using the wrist in the same way. Two things I noted with the vertical mouse

Your need to actively reach out and grip it with your thumb rather than just let the weight of your hand rest on it like a normal mouse

It feels large in the hand (Oh, Matron!) compared to a normal mouse, I have quite large hands and it fits me fine but it may not suite everyone