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    Mouseblisters Counteract Your Sweaty Palms

    Samurai Ergonomics

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    Image of SysRq SysRq
    08/05/09

    In reply to Mouseblisters Counteract Your Sweaty Palms
    This is...incredibly ugly and ridiculous. It's just like those Xbox controllers with built in fans. If your palms get that sweaty, do something else.
    Then again, perhaps as an Apple geek my outrage has to do with the fact that it's ugly and I wouldn't let those anywhere near my Mighty Mouse.
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    Image of SinisterBill SinisterBill
    08/05/09

    In reply to Mouseblisters Counteract Your Sweaty Palms
    I have that Razor and the idea you'd need to add something like this is silly. That mouse rocks and it's the best for lefty's I've found.
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    Image of Mr_Biggles:Windows 7 was my idea Mr_Biggles:Windows 7 was my idea
    08/05/09

    @SinisterBill: yea the razor is sweet i got one also and to add anything to it would be a crime /devoted razor mouse fan
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    Image of jackrabbix jackrabbix
    08/05/09

    @SinisterBill: I'm not even a lefty and I adore the copperhead. I even bought a 2nd one for my work PC.
    (oops, I didn't mean to admit to that... crap)
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    Image of SeraphX2 SeraphX2
    08/05/09

    @SinisterBill: On top of that, who wants to put sticky rubber things on such an expensive mouse.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    08/05/09

    In reply to Mouseblisters Counteract Your Sweaty Palms
    I'm waiting for someone to cross a hair removal device with a mouse. That would solve some problems for me.
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    Image of tok3ninja tok3ninja
    08/05/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_NowDoesSurnames: So you can trim your hairy palms while you're surfing the internet?
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    08/05/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_NowDoesSurnames: They could call it the Groomba!
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    08/05/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_NowDoesSurnames: Epilady + Mouse = Epimousey?
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    08/05/09

    @nwaasob: Epilouse. Even out of beta it's loaded with bugs.
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    Image of SinisterBill SinisterBill
    08/05/09

    @Bigbadbikernerd: Awesome!
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/05/09

    In reply to Mouseblisters Counteract Your Sweaty Palms
    i don't usually have a death grip on my mouse so i don't get sweaty hands. not even an intense gaming session leads to sweaty hands. what kind of iron fist do people use where they would actually think of something goofy like this.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/05/09

    In reply to Mouseblisters Counteract Your Sweaty Palms
    But since it LOOKS cool and its NEW, someone will buy it since they need to have the latest, greatest, fastest, newest, most improved.....
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/05/09

    In reply to Mouseblisters Counteract Your Sweaty Palms
    wouldn't this make your carpal tunnel worse, by making your hand crane up at an even higher angle to hold your mouse?
    This is so crazily unnecessary it's laughable. This is Thanko-product level of stupid. If you're really so sweaty that you can't grasp a mouse, just go buy a roll of 2 dollar baseball bat grip tape and tape the hell out of your mouse.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    08/05/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: "This is Thanko-product level of stupid."
    I'll go you one better. This is so brain dead it's Yanko-product level of stupid. Yeah, that stupid.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    08/05/09

    @bosskev: It's not quite Yanko-level since it is actually buildable. Were this a yanko product, the little rubber pads would be super powerful invisible magnets. And it'd look more like an apple device.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/14/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    That's quite on the cutting edge. Mwahahahhahahahaha.


    Siiiiiiiigh.


    Anyways, I'm taking Medieval German Swordsmanship. If I learn it correctly, it should beat mere Samurai ergonomics with German efficiency and brute power.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    04/14/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    Arch your back backwards as much as you can.


    I had the same problem about a couple years ago on my lumbar muscles. At one point, I sprained it and I was out (disability) for a whole month. During that time, my PT told me it was because I've been sitting too much or hunched over my lumbar muscles start to strain. I trained to work out my core muscles and practice to keep my back muscles relaxed by having good posture.


    When your on your laptop or watching tv, try lying on your stomach on the floor or bed.

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    Image of Adam Jackson Adam Jackson
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    Well. This video has some perfect ergonomics as well.
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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    04/14/09

    @Adam Jackson: his students are defeated mentally before they even try. you can see they don't even readjust their feet in some of the drills to attempt to keep balance.
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    Image of Jamez Jamez
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    There's no easy way to say this. Brian, you are getting old. :sadface:
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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    04/14/09

    @Jamez: so true.


    Secret: we all are.

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    Image of lstar28 lstar28
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    So you traded in going to see a chiropractor, and learning to sit properly in a chair that, to saying "F*** it I'm a going to this feudal style?"


    If I had done what you'd done I wouldn't have learned that I had two freaking coccyx bones in my back fused. If I hadn't gone in I would have had a shitty future ahead of me.


    Go to the chiropractor and get some X-rays, you probably have a pinched nerve in your lower back. Also when he laughs at how you decided to "fix" your pain please do post it here.

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    Image of lstar28 lstar28
    04/13/09

    @lstar28: Wait, let me guess your going to disemvowel me with your samurai sword, cuz I made a snarky comment? lol that would be funny...
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    Image of kyel57 kyel57
    04/13/09

    @lstar28: There's no need to be snarky. If this works for him and some other people great. A lot of people consider chiropractors hacks anyway.
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    04/13/09

    @kyel57: true story. i'd be more willing to trust a samurai over a chiropractor any day.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/13/09

    @danger the pirate ★ has a fake star and that's good enough ...: At least the Samurai has some real serious training and doesn't think cracking a kids back can cure an ear infection. You cut the ear off, and the infection just flies away. ;)
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    04/14/09

    @lstar28: Umm, NO. Chiropracty is fraud medicine and can actually be very harmful. As somebody else that also has prolapsed disks and arthritis due too lifting too much weight for my size, scoliosis, and from sitting in front of computer for too long I firmly disagree with anyone going to see them. Go to your regular doctor and request an x-ray. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD!!!!!
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    Image of lstar28 lstar28
    04/14/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: and everyone.

    Look it sucks that you had a bad experience with chiropractors, I've had positive very ones.


    Truth be told if Mr. Lam is having back pain he should see a professional. It doesn't have to be a chiropractor but I just don't think that sitting on your knees would be the wisest choice. Pain in the human body is a sign that something's wrong, I'd say 90% of the time. Of course you know his back pain just might be nothing at all.

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    04/14/09

    @lstar28: The point I was trying to make is that they are not professionals, it's not recognised medicine and can cause serious complications.


    I agree with everything else.

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    Image of Brian Lam Brian Lam
    04/14/09

    @lstar28: sorry about your hurt back. I guess I've had better luck than you. That's all I can chalk it up to. Feel better, man.
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    Image of Muckley Muckley
    04/14/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: and @Lukasz Fabis: It's recognised in some countries, whether or not it's publicised by the larger medical community. The hospital in my town regularly refers back-pain/neck-pain sufferers to the local chiropractor. I can walk straight now because of chiropractors, I literally could not do that for a decade. They even got rid of the constant headaches.


    Pseudo-science or not, I don't care, it works for me and many many others. I could go to an expensive doctor to get an expensive x-ray and expensive injections/drugs for the pain... I'd rather go to the chiropractor and have him deal with my pain completely in about ten minutes flat. It's probably some odd placebo effect... do not care, works for me and lots of others.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/14/09

    @Muckley: So lets see what logical fallacies are present in your comment. I see an appeal to authority, anecdotal evidence, confusion of correlation and causation, statistics of small numbers, and bandwagon fallacy. Nice.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    Hot damn.


    I can draft accounts, with the lethality of Bruce Lee, and the stealthiness of Catherine Zeta Jones, sans sexy laser moves.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I really don't want to picture you in her stretchpants.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/13/09

    @Lite: does not like fishsticks...: Neither do I.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    I wouldn't be able to ware a tight skirt… FAIL
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/13/09

    @Software_Goddess: Eh, you'd just have to bunch it up about your hips first.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    There are even ergonomically correct ways to brush your teeth, and you know what, pretty much nobody uses them.
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    04/14/09

    @Lite: does not like fishsticks...: Yeah, I took a class on ergonomics (AKA "human factors") and they said that you could basically call anything "ergonomic" or "ergonomically designed" if it was designed in any way taking into account the human body. So yeah, most anything can be "ergonomic," which kinda makes the word a little meaningless...
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    Image of Ryanraven Ryanraven
    04/13/09

    In reply to Samurai Ergonomics
    Gosh darn land pirates....
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