Shake hands with the 'Vertical Mouse'

(Credit: Fun Shop)

It may be sold at a site called "Fun Shop," but we think this mouse is worth taking seriously, at least in concept. Rather than just flattening out its profile or some other flawed attempt at design, Evoluent made the "Vertical Mouse" with a far more practical ergonomic approach, as Coolest-Gadgets notes. Like the "Wow-Pen," this mouse is constructed to work with the natural movement of our hands. wrists and forearms. What a concept.

[clamoreaux]

Not too bad, but...

It looks better than most mice, but still does not hold a candle to the trackball. The big marble of the trackball is hard to beat for comfort. And it does not take up as much desk space as a mouse.

[robdaugherty1]

Could be improved

It's a great idea, but I wish the buttons were more like the L and R buttons on Gamecube/Playstation controllers.

Instead of pushing the button to click, which would cause it to move the mouse to the left of where you wanted to click, you would simply lightly squeeze into your hand.

[grandtri]

dual purpose

Now if you could fill it with a beveragea and use a straw you'd have something!

[grandtri]

dual purpose

Now if you could fill it with a beverage and use a straw you'd have something!

[zclayton2]

Left handed version?

Yawn. Nice idea, not workable for me.

[LarryH]

Option for left hand

I use an AirO2bic mouse. It is a vertical mouse with a slightly different design with standard button and scroll-wheel layout as you'd expect. It comes in right- or left-handed models. One of the nice things is it has a built in hand rest that you put the pinkie side of your hand on. I'm not associated with the company but I use it and I don't have pain in my hand anymore. See
http://www.aerobicmouse.com for more details. (When I looked at that page it even showed the left handed version.)

[Rick3904]

Great Mouse

I own the Evoluent Vertical Mouse and it works great for me. You don't need to re-learn where the buttons are because they're positioned the same as a standard mouse. The main difference is that you don't have to lay your hand flat as you would with a regular mouse, and your hand is in the more natural "handshake" position. Highly recommended.

[baddawg65]

Pretty good for what is trying to do.

I bought Evoluent VerticalMouse (first generation) and it does need some used to but it does work to minimized twisting of the forearm which helps people with carpal tunnel syndrome. I use it part time on one of many systems and I transition from a normal mouse to it without any problems now. There is a Evoluent VerticalMouse 2 that apparently fixes some issues I experienced with the first generation Evoluent VerticalMouse and too bad there isn't a trade-in program to get the the updated Evoluent VerticalMouse 2.
For the Macintosh people you need to buy an USB 3rd party driver from USBoverdrive to get all the other programmable buttons to work which I didn't like since it should be been part of the purchase. I think this was done because there are less Macintosh sales so it doesn't justify the driver being part of the package.