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[Jadith]

Can't find a large enough touch pad mouse. Does anyone know where I can find one?

[chickadee]

Depends on what kind of mousing you'd like to do. A lot of the designers at my company use full 8x11 pads for doing their mousing and drawing. A decidedly lower-tech (and much less expensive) way to do it is a stationary trackball mouse. Depending on your hand control, this might be a good idea for you.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

Extra Large USB Touchpad Mouse: http://www.ergonomic...xl_touchpad.php
Ideas re: Trackball Mouse: http://www.trackballmouse.org/

Good luck!

[Doodle]

Hi,

I know they make a big touch pad made by bamboo, if you google it you should find it! It's quite pricey as you can do many different things with it, I bought my dad one for Christmas! It does come with a pen but you can do all the touch with your hand!

[curbyi]

Amazingly the Apple trackpad works a treat for me.
My fingers are at 90 degrees(curling shut) so i use the underside of my little finger.
i cannot do all the fancy gestures but most importantly i can set drag lock.
Try it in a Apple store fist see how you get on.

[guido]

There is a Dutch company who do a product called ErgoClick: http://www.ergoclick.com/ that was brought to my attention by someone with MS who found it invaluable.



Though it takes until about 1min 47secs to show the product!




I got in touch with the guy (finally) and they've all but stopped them as he would have to have a new production run of (think it was) a 1,000. He was annoyed that the retailers put too big a mark up on them and said they should have been about £20 not the £40-75 that people were charging. Don't know whether it's an outdated thing now or whether it would be worth persuading him to do a new production?

Don't know what anyone else thinks.


I have to agree that I think the Apple Trackpad is fantastic. But I have hand function.

[curbyi]

Just to repeat i have no hand function.
Static fingers and can use the trackpad.
Hope you find what you need.

[Bourdillon]

guido, on 29 January 2011 - 06:17 PM, said:

There is a Dutch company who do a product called ErgoClick: http://www.ergoclick.com/ that was brought to my attention by someone with MS who found it invaluable.

Ergoclick.jpg

Though it takes until about 1min 47secs to show the product!




I got in touch with the guy (finally) and they've all but stopped them as he would have to have a new production run of (think it was) a 1,000. He was annoyed that the retailers put too big a mark up on them and said they should have been about £20 not the £40-75 that people were charging. Don't know whether it's an outdated thing now or whether it would be worth persuading him to do a new production?

Don't know what anyone else thinks.


I have to agree that I think the Apple Trackpad is fantastic. But I have hand function.

do you know any quadriplegics without wrist extension who have tried this product? Am I to understand that it is no longer available?
Please excuse the interrogation??

[curbyi]

I too use the apple trackpad and have no hand function.
Fingers curled inwards hand positioned as if about to shake hands with pinky finger making contact with the trackpad.
Takes a while to work out the drag locking with a fast double tap but it's great.

As a sidebar the newer Mac Book Pros trackpads also allow drag locking mouse control.
But the model before last DOES NOT

[Kimu]

hey im a c5/6 quad w/ no hand movement and i use a logitech wireless trackball mouse (http://www.logitech....ls/devices/7365)personally i love them, they take a lil while to get used too but once you get it they are very fast + easy to use.