Lo-Tech and Hi-Tech Mice

What's your favorite ride?

[skipfactor]

I'm up in the hills and only make it to real computer stores a few times a year. What's the latest in wireless, precise, pointing devices? Any groundbreaking, affordable, available technology for those with hand pain?

Old desktop favorite: Kensington 2-button serial big-ball trackball (Expert Mouse) with gel pads all around.--please don't die, the 4-button was noisy and cheap-feeling and was returned.

New couch favorite: Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman.--very smooth on the desk and the couch but shaped for rightys, and I like to switch when one hand tires. However, it's not too bad using the left hand.

[HughMungus]

I have big hands so I get the fattest mouse I can find (currently, the MS mouse).

[synergy]

Logitech MX500 Not only a surfer's mouse.. but also ideal for FPS gaming :)

[bill]

I had one of those wireless MS Intellimouse Explorer mouse packages and had to give it up. The response time was not too good and I'd always find myself shaking the thing around to wake it up...then there's the constant fear that your batteries are going to die during the holidays when all of the stores are closed and you'll have to remember all the keyboard shortcuts to get any work done...a phobia of mine ;) I went back to a wired version of the same mouse and am very happy.

[Trisha]

I use a Cirque touch pad and like it a lot. It helps with the hand/wrist pain I have. Mines not wireless, but I know they make wireless ones. What I like best about it is that you can hold it anywhere in any position.