| When you suddenly move from a desktop | | | | excessive computer mouse user with a computer |
| computer with a mouse to a laptop with a | | | | related injury called a mousing injury. Most |
| touchpad keyboard, what is your first | | | | people who use their computer and computer |
| instinct in order to perform a function? You | | | | mouse excessively know this type of pain. |
| reach for the computer mouse instinctively | | | | Sitting at a desk for hours with an arm |
| and once your hand discovers that it | | | | outstretched and consistent tapping creates |
| isn’t where you thought, it hits you | | | | pain in shoulders, backs, necks, wrists and |
| with anxiety, “what do you do now? | | | | forearms. |
| There isn’t a mouse!” You | | | | |
| suddenly think, since I can’t | | | | Â |
| communicate with the computer, it’s | | | | |
| almost useless with out a computer mouse to | | | | According to recent media, Windows 7's |
| access the “start” button. Until | | | | multitouch software can allow desktop and |
| you realize that you have the touch pad | | | | laptop PC users to use their fingers to draw |
| keyboard, you realize how much dependence is | | | | pictures onto a computer screen, zoom in and |
| on the computer mouse. | | | | out of photos, flip quickly through |
| | | | slideshows, search and skim maps, and play an |
| Â | | | | on-screen piano. Also included in the new |
| | | | product is speech recognition technologies. |
| The computer mouse has had quite the legacy. | | | | This will allow users to communicate to their |
| From wireless to ergonomic to finger mouse | | | | computer and hear their computer respond |
| styles and several kitschy computer mouse | | | | back. This multitouch technology is also |
| pads to go with it. All of it is about to | | | | being called “Surface.” First |
| change though. With the advent of touch | | | | instances of the surface technology will be |
| screens, the era of the computer mouse is | | | | premiered at hotels, restaurants and other |
| quickly coming to an end. Our society has | | | | public venues. |
| already embraced both resistive and | | | | |
| capacitive sensor technologies on a grand | | | | Â |
| scale. We have seen touch screens impact our | | | | |
| daily lives already, from the grocery store | | | | Now, the question remains, will other |
| check out to the gas pump and at the bank. | | | | companies besides the Microsoft giant be able |
| Now, with touch screen phones and soon, touch | | | | to beat Microsoft to the market? As far as |
| screen Microsoft Windows, the computer mouse | | | | idealistic goals of going mouse-less next |
| will be unnecessary. | | | | year, is the actual time line two or three? |
| | | | With so many people touching screens to |
| Â | | | | connect to the internet and other functions |
| | | | via their telephone and other hand held |
| If users can speed up the process of touching | | | | devices, it almost seems like the next |
| something on the screen rather than reaching | | | | logical step would be seeking out ways to |
| for the mouse and the pointer to produce a | | | | scroll our fingers down the computer’s |
| function, think of the time it will save and | | | | screen, eliminating the clunky ol mouse and |
| not to mention “mousing | | | | quickly accessing files, photos and music |
| injuries.” “Mousing,” the | | | | faster than ever possible before. Just think, |
| term for using one’s computer mouse | | | | soon double clicking will be a phrase of the |
| functions has also become known as a | | | | past. |
| descriptor of a person who is considered an | | | | |