In a five-minute test, a doctor uses pegs to isolate a patient's individual fingers. "You wouldn't think it works as well as it does, but once you are pegged in, you can't move anything but the finger we want you to," Miller said. A loop is fitted around the finger, and when the patient moves it, the amount of force generated is measured. "PRIME gets the peak force," Xu said. "Then the doctor can create a patient-specific file with all your information, time-stamped, and record every single measurement.".

Apparently, most of the tests for carpal tunnel are subjective—so improving accuracy and providing detailed patient-specific information will be helpful for sufferers in the future. It's a good thing too, because in this line of work I will need all the help I can get. [Medgadget via Boing Boing Gadgets]

There's a total of seven different "stations" that it cycles through, and only costs $130—not too horrible for a fancy keyboard. Seeing as regular ergo keyboards are proven to work at lessening the painful effects of typing too much, even if the motors don't work, you'll still have an ergo keyboard. [Everything USB via Engadget]

Luckily the White Bread Wrist Rest has been engineered by the Brando R&D team (which we're beginning to think more and more every day consists of a superior alien intelligence that has a penchant for both USB ports and pet toys) to offer you hours of computer usage without painful, cramped wrists.

How is this possible? Think back to being a kid, eating bologna or peanut butter and jelly every day for lunch, sandwiched between two glowing pieces of bread. Were you complaining of carpal tunnel syndrome then? Of course you weren't. Case closed.

One slice will cost you $6, or two go for $10. [Brando via Crave]

There's even a built-in laser pointer, optional flash memory, and "silver nano" technology to keep germs away. If you've been looking forward to the Wowpen, you can pick one up for $49. It's nice when something cool turns out to not be vaporware. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Wow-pen via Chip Chick via uber gizmo]

What looks more like a controller for MS Flight Simulator is really a new mouse designed for people who have carpal tunnel syndrome. It allows your arm, shoulder, and hand to relax, kick back, and let your wrist and fingers do the work. Wait a sec. Isn't that a bad thing? Not necessarily. It allows you to properly navigate sites, play only flight simulators games, and Photoshop beautifully, I'm sure. It goes for $79.95 which is a bit expensive for me, so I think I'll stick to my wrist living in a fiery pit of pain.

The Zero Tension Mouse [Red Ferret]