Trackbar Mouse Is The Newest and Most Economical Central Pointing Device In The

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013HZHQG
• Item model number: TBE2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 19, 2004

Product Description

Ergonomics is the study of effective designing things for human comfort and use. Ergonomics, itself, seems to have become a clich , diluted from overuse by designers and manufacturers. The Euro Office Trackbar Emotion 2009 is a computer mouse that epitomizes the marriage of ergonomics in a product that is used very often - a computer mouse.

Many mouse manufacturers add the word "ergonomic" when describing the mouse design. Sometimes the mere act of continually reaching for and the frequent use of a mouse might not be ergonomic.

The Trackbar Emotion 2009 is a centered pointing device that eliminates the need to reach for your mouse. Reaching for a mouse repeatedly throughout the day, or holding the arm in a reaching posture for long durations while doing mouse intensive tasks is considered a probable cause of arm, shoulder and neck pain that may result as discomfort for many computer users.

The 2009 version has a rubberized clickable roll. It was chosen by the attendees and awarded Best Product" at the 2007 National Ergonomics Conference. The Trackbar Emotion is plug-n-play, and will work in both PC and Mac environments without additional software. Automatic voice recognition systems are built into Trackbar Emotion, which works with computers using either Microsoft VISTA or Apple Mac OS X Leopard. Consult your computer software manual or the manufacturer for further instructions how to activate this software. Microsoft XP has this software, without charge, on their website. You may download and install this on your XP system and enjoy this voice feature.

Place the Trackbar at the front of the keyboard (closest to you). Its central position and intuitive sensors and controls let you move around with both precision and comfort. It even supports your wrist and fore-arm to reduce possible support injury.

So who says you have to hold and maneuver your traditional mouse? The Trackb

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Idea - Bad Implementation., September 5, 2008

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D. Lim "IT-Manager" (SFBA California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trackbar Mouse Is The Newest and Most Economical Central Pointing Device In The (Personal Computers)

Compared to Contour's own RollerMouse Pro, the TrackBar Emotion's

-Trackbar is sticky and requires too much friction to go left and right
-Scroll wheel sticks and can only do half a rotation before I have to unstick it by banging on the wheel
-Trackbar not rubberized like the RollerMouse
-Lacks friction adjustment
-Software utilized to reprogram the extra buttons do not work
-It's too wide if you don't use the palm rest.
-The button locations are awkward (they should have a button group after the trackbar so the index fingers can use them)
-Pressing on the trackbar does not signal a Left Click like it does on the RollerMouse Pro.

Overall, it's not worth the 75 bucks spent on this unit, if anything, its build quality is worse than the freebie Dell Mice that they hand out with every new computer.

It would be better if the unit was lower and were able to slide underneath the keyboard. I use the new slim Apple Keyboard for Macs (the new one), and if it came from the space bar out diagonally right at a 30 degree angle from the keyboard, it would work so much better.

But unfortunately, the palm rests are not removable and the unit was built to be big and bulky. If anything it's not as ergonomic as it was originally purported to be because the hand's positioning is still the same as using a regular mouse. With you requiring to lift your hand and have your wrist at a strange angle to work.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the $, October 13, 2008

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Melissa B. Stanat (Chapel Hill, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This is not worth your money or the frustration of daily use of this product. I bought this to replace a dead barmouse, which is much the same concept, only a far superior product. However, this cost significantly less - and now I know why. For Mac users, only two of the buttons and the scroll wheel function. Why? Who knows. It would be far better, comfortwise, if I could use the lower two buttons for clicking, but that is not an option. Also, clicking the bar itself does nothing, which is a HUGE disappointment after the barmouse. The motion on the bar is sporadic. Sometimes it won't hardly budge side to side and then all of a sudden it flies across the screen just as you manage to get it where you want. I waste so much time just trying to move the cursor into position! Also the bar is too smooth for decent traction to move it with your fingers at times.

If you get the right product, this mouse concept is an arm and wrist saver. Using the barmouse product I experienced none of the pain that was occurring with standard mousing. So, buy something like this, just not THIS ONE.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Crap, October 30, 2009

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EINAR COUTIN (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I disregarded the two previous reviews. Don't commit the same mistake I did.
I got the 2009 version which case is built for future wireless support, but brings none. That shows disrespect for the comsumer.
The unit is:
Bulky.
The Trackbar does work well if you are a serious user and know how to configure your mouse scrolling speed.
The Buttons are factually umprogrammable in ANY OS with their first party application.
The Application ran once on Win Xp SP3 then it didn't anymore in both Windows 7 and Xp sp3. Compatibility tried.

DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT.

Only problem is other trackbars are very costly.