Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball Review
Like many ergonomic products, trackballs are an acquired taste—often, acquired by sheer painful necessity. It can feel strange to switch from using a mouse, which feels like an extension of your arm, to rolling a ball to move your cursor. But if you have wrist or shoulder troubles, trackballs keep your whole arm still. They offer economy of movement—all the work falls to a few fingers that, while they move a lot, never have to stretch. It should come as no surprise that Kensington, a company known for making trackballs, would design what I see as the platonic ideal of the form. The $99.99 Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball is comfortable to navigate, and compact enough to suppress strenuous motions. Plus, it’s cordless, so less desk clutter. A few improvements could be made and power-user features added, but the Expert Mouse earns an Editors' Choice for providing everything you need to adapt to the trackball lifestyle.The Perfect Trackball? Roll With Me Here For an "expert" device, t...
Wrist need a rest? The Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball has everything you need to make the fingers-only trackball experience your own.
Comfortable design, including game-changing scrolling ring; Bluetooth and 2.4GHz wireless; Detachable wrist rest; Lots of customization available via config software
Relies on disposable batteries (may be a pro to some); Noisy click panels