{"id":962,"date":"2012-03-28T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T06:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/?p=962"},"modified":"2012-03-28T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T06:26:56","slug":"ergonomic-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/2012\/03\/28\/ergonomic-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergonomic mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology should change for people&#8217;s needs and not the other way around that is what the company Humanscale is trying with their product; the switch mouse. The switch mouse is 30% larger than the typical mouse and is designed to mitigate wrist injuries such as carpal tunnel. They do this by having designed a built in palm rest that\u00a0encourage arm movements instead of wrist movements.<\/p>\n<p>The mouse is designed with a v shaped bracket that can tilt in order to keep our hands and wrists straight and can be used by both right and left handed people. The mouse also has the ability to stretch for people with larger hands.<\/p>\n<p>The company says that it is a product that takes time to break into but will improve our bad mouse habits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2008\/10\/09\/technology\/personaltech\/09mouse.190.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthtrumpold.id.au\/designtech\/pmwiki.php\">http:\/\/www.ruthtrumpold.id.au\/designtech\/pmwiki.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology should change for people&#8217;s needs and not the other way around that is what the company Humanscale is trying with their product; the switch mouse. The switch mouse is 30% larger than the typical mouse and is designed to mitigate wrist injuries such as carpal tunnel. They do this by having designed a built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}