Review: Waawoo Wow Pen Eco

Update:
March 11th 2007
My right hand is starting to hurt again (ulner nerve) where my pinky is going numb and my ring finger. I am thinking that because I was previously using the PistolMouseFPS, my hand somewhat healed and it tricked me into thinking the Wow pen was going to continue the pain-free legacy. I was wrong. So I'm going to publicly give this input device a 'Don't Buy' status....



I bought this device for $33.48 shipped using Google Checkout's $10 coupon. I've been using the ECO now for over 3 weeks full time use. One thing I would say is that I was definitely skeptical at first due to the seemingly lack of wrist rotation compared to a regular mouse:

Regular Mouse: Wow Pen Eco

What a difference! ;)

Well I don't know how but that slight difference is definitely better than a regular mouse as I can say from experience. I get pain from using a regular mouse and no pain so far with the Wow Pen Eco.

In about 10 minutes, I was already accustomed to using the the new mouse, including the scroll wheel and left and right clicking.

I will say though it loses points due to quickly gathering dust around the sensor, as I have already had to pull out some debris twice due to erratic mouse cursor movement. Whatever, it won't get permanently screwed up like a regular old school ball mouse. I will also say it loses points over the scroll wheel push in button. Its way to hard to push it in, and almost makes it useless. I never really bothered using that with a regular mouse though.


Similar Alternate Products:

Aero2bic Mouse (formerly Quill mouse):
http://www.officeorganix.com/Quillmouse1.htm

Evoluent VerticalMouse 3:
http://www.evoluent.com/vm3.html

MonsterGecko PistolMouse FPS:
http://www.monstergecko.com/products.html


I would rate the Waawoo Wow Pen ECO:
3 out of 10
I would not suggest picking one up to fix any form of pain from normal computing (Carpel Tunnel, RSI, or Ulner Nerve Problems).