Belkin Wireless Keyboard and Ergo Optical Mouse - The Mouse
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The Ergo Mouse is definitely a great design. The main buttons resemble the popular Logitech MX500/510/700/900/1000 design.
But as you can see in the following pictures the two mice have very different structures.
While the Belkin design looks a bit extreme and maybe even uncomfortable, that couldn't be further from the truth. The Ergo Mouse's high arc more closely matches the natural resting position of a human hand, as shown below.
Don't get me wrong, the Logitech mouse feels great in your hand, but when compared to the Ergo mouse it simply doesn't do as good of a job of recreating the hand's curvature. So kudos to Belkin for taking the elements of an already popular design and improving upon it greatly.
The software included for the mouse really doesn't give you many options beyond what the basic Windows drivers provide, with two exceptions.
These exceptions are the SpeedWheel tab and the Battery Power tab. The Battery Power tab looks identical to that of the keyboard, the obvious difference being that it shows the mouse's battery power remaining, not the keyboard's. As I said before, I have been using these two components for about a week now and the keyboard battery is still full. The mouse, on the other hand, has about 65-75 percent of its power remaining.
The SpeedWheel tab not only allows for assignment of the three buttons (rolling the wheel can only scroll up or down a page), it also allows you to assign the SpeedWheel option. As far as I know this is uniquely Belkin's design. The SpeedWheel is a small Internet navigation program that pops up when you push the assigned button and is shown below.
Starting at 12 o'clock and going clockwise you have Stop, Refresh, Forward, five separate programmable buttons, Back, and Home. At the bottom there is a thumbtack symbol allowing you to make the SpeedWheel remain on top of all open windows, and to the right of it the little "x" to close the program. The blank space in the middle displays text telling you whatever function your mouse cursor is hovering over. Now, I called this an Internet navigation program but the five programmable buttons can be set up to perform an Internet operation (such as search or refresh), open any Web page, or open any program, so it's quite versatile. If you used it enough to gain fluency, it could make life a lot easier for you.
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