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Penguin Ambidextrous Wireless Ergonomic Mouse | Rechargeable, Alleviates RSI, Easy-Glide, Vertical Design, PC Computer & Apple Mac Compatible (Medium, Wireless)
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Brand | Posturite |
Color | White |
Connectivity Technology | Wireless |
Special Feature | Ergonomic Design |
Movement Detection Technology | Optical |
About this item
- ADVANCED ERGONOMIC DESIGN: the Penguin Wireless Mouse features a vertical design that sets new standards of protection against a range of upper limb conditions caused by extensive computer/laptop use, such as repetitive strain injury (RSI) and carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)
- AMBIDEXTROUS DESIGN: allows for easy transition between right and left-handed use, avoiding exaggerated movements of the wrist joint, which can increase pressure on the soft tissues in the carpal tunnel. When using a PC, regular switching of hands throughout the day helps prevent static muscle strain (SMS) in the arm and shoulder - a major source of discomfort in mouse work
- PRECISION PERFORMANCE: adjustable 400, 600, 800 or 1200 DPI resolution optical tracking technology encourages fast and precise operating movements on a wide range of surfaces
- EASY-GLIDE: symmetrical base allows the user to rest either hand comfortably alongside the vertical design, encouraging the use of the bigger muscles in the fore and upper arm to manoeuvre the ergo mouse. Fine cursor control is achievable with small hand and/or finger movements
- RECHARGEABLE BATTERY: up to 30 days on a single charge, depending on use - perfect for working in both home and office environments Compatibility: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Mac OS
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Customer Ratings | ||||||
Ergonomic | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.7 |
Comfort | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.7 |
Battery life | — | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Value for money | 3.7 | — | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.7 | — |
Bluetooth connectivity | — | 4.5 | — | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Sold By | ErgoWarehouse | Amazon.com | Delux Technology Co., Ltd. | Amazon.com | Signature Distributors | Amazon.com |
connectivity tech | Wireless | USB | wireless | Bluetooth | Bluetooth | Bluetooth, USB |
hand orientation | Ambidextrous | Right | Right | Left | Left | Ambidextrous |
power source | Battery Powered | Battery Powered | Battery Powered | Battery Powered | Batteries | Battery Powered |
tracking method | Optical | Optical | Optical | Optical | Optical | 4K DPI, multi-surface sensor |
range | feet | 10 meters | 10 | 10 meters | 30 feet | 30 feet |
button quantity | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
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Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 inches |
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Item Weight | 13.6 ounces |
ASIN | B00CA21LMW |
Item model number | 9820102 |
Batteries | A batteries required. |
Customer Reviews |
4.0 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #2,054 in Computer Mice |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | September 26, 2017 |
Manufacturer | Posturite |
Country of Origin | China |
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Customers like the comfort of the mouse. They say it has a wide comfortable base and they can use it without pain. They also appreciate the ergonomics of the product, saying that it places their hand in a neutral position. However, some customers dislike the buttons. Customers have different opinions on appearance, quality, performance, size, ease of use, and grip.
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Customers like the comfort of the mouse. For example, they say it's noticeably more comfortable than other ergonomic mice that place your hand in a neutral position. The Penguin Mouse has a big, wide comfortable base to put your hand on, and you can use it without pain. The mouse has s a soft, rubbery material covering it, similar to on the edges of a keyboard. Some say they've had no symptoms of carpal tunnel, and that the shape and posture are the best out of any upright mouse they'd tried. They also say it fits their hand perfectly.
"...Soft, rubbery material covers it, similar to on the edges of my Blackberry, certain Palm devices from yesteryear, and the same coating on the back..." Read more
"...The pain has reduced dramatically.But... the opticals don't work on my work desktop...." Read more
"...And yes, I was pleased with the results. It is much more comfortable to use than a normal flat mouse, and I found the control was not that hard to..." Read more
"Very straightforward to use. Just plug and play. Rechargeable. Very comfortable to hold. Can be used with left or right hand in one device...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the appearance of the mouse. Some mention that the ergonomic design was pretty good, and the ambitextrous design is very good. The shape is very well catered to one's hand, and it keeps your forearm comfortably perpendicular to your desk, which is a more natural alignment. However, others say that the mouse moves very erratically, and that the pointer moves randomly. This required dragging motion and the heaviness of the mice makes the cursor impossible to place in the right place.
"...I really wanted to rate this 4 stars because I love the design so much (and I've never been able to find anything similar on the market), but the..." Read more
"...The Penguin is equally comfortable in either hand and has a convenient switch to change the primary mouse button making it simple to switch from one..." Read more
"...Those vertical ones are horrible--hard to maneuver, don't keep your wrist straight, crappy quality, etc. The Penguin saved me...." Read more
"...Don't get me wrong, I'm not condemning Evoluent- it was a good design and looked like decent quality when I tried it...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the mouse. Some mention that the build quality is good, the sturdiness allows them to tote it to and from work without any issues, and the wheel was great. Others say that the quality control is not good, and it feels cheap. Overall, the opinions are mixed, and they're left with the feeling that the mouse won't last long.
"...Having had this mouse for a few months now I can say that it's not a good mouse, it stops working randomly and often and I have to turn it off and..." Read more
"...The build quality is good. No scratches or anything out of the box and seems well built (I've had it about a year now--I keep updating this review)...." Read more
"...For how much this mouse costs, I am disappointed that this design flaw was overlooked, and I do hope that this is fixed with future versions of the..." Read more
"...6. More solidly built. The Evoluent look very nice, but feels cheap. I had problems with the buttons almost fro the beginning...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the mouse. Some mention that it works well and hardly ever need to be plugged in to keep charged, while others say that it seems to stop working after a year. The wireless version stopped working after one year, and the small mouse scroll wheel never worked.
"...And the scroll wheel, from some time on it started not to work alright, while using it, the pages don't scroll as expected, but move up an down..." Read more
"...is a laser mouse or not but I'm assuming it is because it works on all the shiny surfaces in my house like the dresser that is waxed...." Read more
"...Also, it stopped working after six months. Won't connect, even after switching to wired and restarting the computer...." Read more
"...The wheel is functional but spins much too easily, there's hardly any resistance and almost no detent...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the size of the mouse. Some mention that the smaller size fits their hand correctly, while others say that it's too big. The base of the product is great, but some customers find it too big for their hand. The girth however feels too fat, and it feels bulky compared to their standard mouse.
"...I don't want to get a mouse pad since the base of the mouse is so large, the pad would have to be quite large too, but i'll try on a few and..." Read more
"...4. The hand rest is great, but it does create a significantly larger footprint than most mice and you may find that most mouse pads seem too..." Read more
"...Fits perfect vertically, but feels slightly wide in the grip...." Read more
"...you are moving your arm more so than your wrist, it IS slightly more difficult to do small, detailed, formatting maneuvers..." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the ease of use of the mouse. Some mention that it looks intimidating, but is really easy to use and get used to, and the setup was easy. However, others say that it takes time to get used it, and it is a little weird to use at first, and difficult to do tasks like checking boxes or moving to. However it is cumbersome and heavy to slide around on the mouse, and is difficult to move around on.
"Very straightforward to use. Just plug and play. Rechargeable. Very comfortable to hold. Can be used with left or right hand in one device...." Read more
"...3. Takes some time to get used to how to correctly hold and move the mouse. You are moving your whole arm with the mouse, not just your wrist...." Read more
"...But this just worked better for me personally. Simpler and more comfortable...." Read more
"...working on the computer because using the mouse felt so clunky and frustrating (though my wrist/arm pain was much less)...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the grip of the mouse. Some mention that it has a much better grip and can be used with left or right handed, it glides very smoothly with no pad needed, and it's very quick to switch hands. However, others say that it sticks and can get stuck. The low friction pads the mouse rides on wears out after six months or so.
"...that the scroll wheel was titled up slightly, which caused friction on the button...." Read more
"...switch to change the primary mouse button making it simple to switch from one hand to the other without having to change your mouse settings on the..." Read more
"...was still, remaining still while the mouse is moving, and moving in the opposite direction that the mouse is...." Read more
"...No 'Christmas ornament' material- Grippy material instead of that slippery metal stuff...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the buttons on the input mouse. They mention that the buttons take a little too much force to activate, the main button is finally starting to fail, and the buttons are of questionable quality. Some mention that they are slow to respond and tend to stick.
"...I went to use the mouse and noticed that the top button was stuck in a depressed state...." Read more
"...I bought lasted me just about two years before the primary mouse button started failing (it wouldn't always register the click)...." Read more
"...a traditional horizontal mouse, I found that it was easy to unintentionally press buttons when resting or moving...." Read more
"...Not because it's hard to push, but the loose plastic button makes it hard to judge how much the button should be pressed to hit the switch itself..." Read more
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The build quality is good. No scratches or anything out of the box and seems well built (I've had it about a year now--I keep updating this review). Soft, rubbery material covers it, similar to on the edges of my Blackberry, certain Palm devices from yesteryear, and the same coating on the back of the Barnes & Noble Nook. The rubber coating peeled off my Blackberry after a few years, but that was in and out of my pocket. I say this rubber coating will last many years because the only surface it will contact is my hand. I've tried some of those vertical mice and not only did they have pretty crappy build quality, your hand was NOT vertical! (I bought the $82 Prestige Evoluent online at Best Buy and ended up returning it. It didn't keep my wrist vertical and the plastic didn't fit together properly. I bought some off brands from Ebay too which were like $20 so I bought just to try and I still have them but I never use them because they suck).
I don't even know if this is a laser mouse or not but I'm assuming it is because it works on all the shiny surfaces in my house like the dresser that is waxed. My old optical had problems on those surfaces. DPI is great and there's a button on the bottom to change DPI. I just set it where it felt right and forgot about it and use Windows to make fine adjustments in speed, etc. Another thing: the unit puts itself to sleep after exactly 20 seconds to conserve power. You can't change this time. Move it and it wakes up. While it's on, there's an led light on that was annoying at first but I'm used to it. I'd say you could just put a piece of black electrical tape over it like I did with that darn bright LED on my phone's car charger! Or you can take the unit apart to unsolder or break the LED (there's also an orange LED that indicated when it's charging). There's a power button on the bottom which I used to turn on and off but sometimes if you turn it on before Windows boots up it will have trouble syncing with it's mini transmitter (quarter inch and is still in a USB port). I've realized after using the mouse a year that the sleep mode is sufficient. You don't need to turn it on and off to conserve battery life. I'd only turn it off for storage. But if you use it daily just leave it on and it's sensors will take care of the rest.
I wanted this because my right wrist was hurting me. All those other vertical mice, including the Zalman FPS Gun mouse do NOT keep your wrist vertical. So, I tried this funky looking Penguin and and got used to it pretty quickly. Do give it a couple weeks, but I think you'll get used to it. And please buy a bunch because when mine goes bad I need this company to still be around so I can buy another one. Actually, I should buy a backup now just in case.
Anyway, a funny thing happened, I was using my old standard mouse left-handed because I didn't want to use it normally with my hurting right. I kept going back to that after trying all those useless vertical mice. During that time, I grew accustomed to mousing left-handed. I always did left-handed at times when I was writing or whatever, but with the wrist problem, I learned to do it all the time.
Enter the Penguin. Windows 7 allows you to set up the buttons on external devices differently from the touch pad. So, on my touchpad, the left button is left click, as is normal, and I occasionally use that with my right hand to move the cursor when typing (I'm getting used to the touchpad since I've been using my little netbook more and more on the go these days with no external mouse). However, since I was used to using a normal mouse with my left hand, I became accustomed to my left middle finger pushing the left click button (I could have changed this around but I didn't, probably because I also use the terminals at work with my left hand and I don't have access to change the buttons around). So, these days, whenever I use a regular mouse, whether I use my right or left hand, the left click is set as the left button. My left middle finger is left click, or my right index finger is left click. My touchpad is normal too--left button left click. My Penguin, mouse however, I set up the opposite, so, the BOTTOM button I have set up for left click, that's my middle finger on either hand. With the Penguin was the first time I experienced my right middle finger being left click. I'm right-handed so that was not hard at all to learn. Took seconds to get used to it that way.
And, another funny thing happened. When I got the Penguin I was already accustomed to using my left hand so that's how I use it. However, when I want to move it to the right, I just put it over there (no cords to worry about) and use it as is. The "bow tie" button switches the scroll wheel. And I didn't even notice that now, with the Penguin, my right MIDDLE finger is doing the left click. And, at work, when I grab a normal mouse, I still don't have any problem because I did it normally for a decade (though with my wrist I usually don't do that for too long).
So, with all this I wanted to tell you that the human brain is amazing and YOU WILL GET USED TO THINGS. This mouse however, doesn't take much getting used to. Those vertical ones are horrible--hard to maneuver, don't keep your wrist straight, crappy quality, etc. The Penguin saved me. Thank you Penguin and thank you ErgoWareHouse for selling this to me....wait a minute? I'm the first reviewer of this? Seemed odd I'd buy something without any reviews. Hmm. I guess I was just desperate. Either way, this thing is great. I don't look at it and say, "I love it" or anything. It's just naturally there and I forget about it, like you do with a normal mouse. It works and I get my work done. I even had email communication with the seller before buying and they were attentive. Now, my mouse is no longer even anything that's on my mind. If you have someone else who uses your computer you can always have two mice set up at once. Hope this review helps anyone with wrist troubles.
Oh, BTW, as you know, many people are stubborn. Right wrist problems and they forget they have a left hand. Use your left, silly! I'd highly recommend training with a regular mouse with your left hand at first to save your right wrist. Then, before you get carpel tunnel in your left wrist too, buy this mouse!
Well, after being contacted directly via email by a Posturite UK representative, he arranged a replacement sent to where I live today, and I didn't have to send the faulty one to them!, this was a very pleasant surprise given the cost of sending the faulty one to the UK or the USA would be greater than the value of the mouse itself. The replacement mouse arrived in a week, and it works like a charm. The representative said that he'd send one of the "latest batch", and it seems that some issues have been fixed. The scroll wheel is working now and I haven't had any random movements of the cursor until now.
Because of this warranty and the nice treatment from the representative, I'm changing my rate to 5 stars now, this is the way a company makes and keeps new clients.
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First, as an ergonomic mouse it's great, the wrist rests fully while the whole arm has to move, the way it's meant to be. The pain has reduced dramatically.
But... the opticals don't work on my work desktop. It's a completely white desk, and sometimes the cursor moves, sometimes it doesn't. I have to lift the whole mouse to a place where there's a (now permanent) coffee stain so the optics pick up something. I didn't have this problem with my previous mouse, a Microsoft 5000.
This has lead to some frustration while working, and to BIG frustration while gaming.
I've tried with some other surfaces, white paper, printed paper, cardboard, printed glossy paper, with mixed results.
I don't want to get a mouse pad since the base of the mouse is so large, the pad would have to be quite large too, but i'll try on a few and edit.
EDIT.
This mouse sucks. The optics randomly work on any surface I've tried it on, now the pointer moves, now it doesn't. It's been very frustrating, even my coworkers make fun of me because of such an expensive mouse that doesn't work.
I'm gonna get a refund.
EDIT EDIT.
Well, the mouse didn't suck as much, found the problem, I bought a USB 3.0 hub alongside the mouse, and made a last test before returning it, I disconnected the Hub and connected the mouse directly, and it worked like a charm. Made the test on another computer and it was definitively the USB Hub. Tried different hubs with mixed results, but ultimately had to return the hub. So, the mouse works, but not on every USB hub, and has a conflict with the Sabrent 4 Port USB 3.0 Hub with 4A Power Adapter support Fast charging Function [VIA VL812 Chipset] (HB-J3U4) . So, don't buy together, I got a $3 usb 2.0 hub an works like a charm.
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Having had this mouse for a few months now I can say that it's not a good mouse, it stops working randomly and often and I have to turn it off and on again to work, and sometimes I even have to disconnect it from the usb port for it to work. Also randomly the pointer moves either all the way to the top of the screen or some space to the right, not very often, but it happens. And the scroll wheel, from some time on it started not to work alright, while using it, the pages don't scroll as expected, but move up an down quickly not going anywhere.
It's a shame that such an expensive mouse has such low quality in its electronics. It was a gift from my wife so I use it all day at the office, where I've become accustomed to its nuances, but when I get home and use my old standard mouse I can feel the difference.
However...
Two days after receiving and using the mouse (approximately 8 hours of use), I went to use the mouse and noticed that the top button was stuck in a depressed state. I observed that the scroll wheel was titled up slightly, which caused friction on the button. It turns out that the scroll wheel had broken off its axis with the rotation sensor, meaning that the scroll function would never work again. Further inspection revealed that the scroll wheel was directly attached to the rotation sensor by a 1/16th inch rod of plastic sticking out from the center of the wheel. Mind you, the scroll wheel also acts as a third button, so that you can click by depressing the wheel with your finger. The very act of using the button, which is a part normal use, rocks the wheel back and forth against the connection to the sensor, eventually snapping the plastic rod like a small twig.
For how much this mouse costs, I am disappointed that this design flaw was overlooked, and I do hope that this is fixed with future versions of the device. Simply embedding a small metal rod into the center of the scroll wheel would have prevented this from happening.
This is my first purchase from Posturite and my last.
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2012
However...
Two days after receiving and using the mouse (approximately 8 hours of use), I went to use the mouse and noticed that the top button was stuck in a depressed state. I observed that the scroll wheel was titled up slightly, which caused friction on the button. It turns out that the scroll wheel had broken off its axis with the rotation sensor, meaning that the scroll function would never work again. Further inspection revealed that the scroll wheel was directly attached to the rotation sensor by a 1/16th inch rod of plastic sticking out from the center of the wheel. Mind you, the scroll wheel also acts as a third button, so that you can click by depressing the wheel with your finger. The very act of using the button, which is a part normal use, rocks the wheel back and forth against the connection to the sensor, eventually snapping the plastic rod like a small twig.
For how much this mouse costs, I am disappointed that this design flaw was overlooked, and I do hope that this is fixed with future versions of the device. Simply embedding a small metal rod into the center of the scroll wheel would have prevented this from happening.
This is my first purchase from Posturite and my last.
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Took a week or two to get used to. Does a good job of relieving carpel tunnel pain and is now is hard to go back to a normal mouse!
It’s a bit expensive for what you get with the somewhat cheaper materials, but it has good build quality. I’d say it’s a overall a good deal, especially worth it when you don’t have any more pain.