Hello everyone and welcome to ZD Tech, ZDNet’s daily editorial podcast. My name is Guillaume Serries and today I explain to you why in computer mice, 57 degrees is good for your forearm. And your spine.
If you put your hands on your desk, naturally, you will not put them flat, but rather in a vertical position, placed on the side of the side of the little finger. And yet, if you grab your computer mouse, you’ll have to flick your wrist, a quarter turn, to grab and use the mouse.
Here you are, you have just understood why holding your computer mouse is sometimes painful for you. Even painful. But by what miracle therefore an ergonomic mouse allows the hand to be positioned more naturally on the work plan?
Well, thanks to a strange shape. I’m going to describe what an ergonomic mouse looks like, and if I explain it badly, go look on the web what it looks like.
An almost vertical slice
An ergonomic mouse has an almost vertical slice on which the user’s hand is embedded. So you don’t put your hand flat on the accessory.
It is this exotic hand position that relieves pressure in the carpal tunnel, muscles and joints. The user’s wrist remains in the direction of the forearm.
The new ergonomic mouse from Switzerland Logitech, called Lift, has a vertical angle positioned at 57 degrees very precisely. Why ? To minimize the pressure exerted on your wrist, your forearm, and therefore your spine.
So, do you absolutely have to throw yourself at these 57 degrees?
In addition to the wheel and the click buttons located at the end of the mouse, on its edge, there are the classic traditional mouse buttons, which can be used to go back or go forward when browsing the net.
So, do you absolutely have to throw yourself at these 57 degrees? Trust, a competitor of Logitech, markets its Verro vertical mouse with a 60 degree angle. So yes, we are not within one or two degrees, but the angle matters.
Only downside, it takes a few days of use to get used to this type of mouse. “I tried a vertical mouse”, evokes as such a ZDNet reader in the comments of an article on ergonomic mice. “The problem with this type of mouse,” he says, “is that moving the mouse is no longer done with the fingers, but with the forearm. And suddenly, the precision is infinitely less”.