The Hippus Handshoe mouse isn’t just big, it’s huge. It looks like a mouse that got melted onto a plastic dinner plate during a fire.  Seriously, this thing dwarfs even my large Contour Mouse, and makes ordinary mice look like little bugs.

Once you get over the shock of its size and start using the Handshoe, it’s amazingly relaxing.  It’s not just a pointing device; it’s a comfy place to rest your hand while working.  Its contours are designed to fit your hand just like a shoe fits your foot.  This design is very effective, for me at least.  When my hand is at rest on the Handshoe, every part of it rests comfortably on a corresponding part of the carefully designed surface.

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In my opinion, the Evoluent vertical mouse is probably what the standard “mouse” should look like, because it offers a high degree of ergonomic benefit and yet remains easy to use without special training.  The Evoluent design simply takes an ordinary five-button scroll mouse and turns it on its side, untwisting the user’s wrist from its standard position into a natural “handshake” posture.  At the same time, this enables the weight of the hand to rest on its sturdy side, instead of being painfully piled on the wrist.  One reviewer, who had gone through many ergonomic mice, described the sensation of using the Evoluent this way: “Like when you’ve been standing on the bus for hours and somebody finally gets off so you can sit down.”

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