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This particular piece of fabric is around 24x21cm and is black, the unusual feature is that 7x14cm at the front is padded and raised 1.5cm to give a wrist rest. Yes RSI can affect mouse users just the same as keyboard users. Sometimes when using the mouse for long periods my wrist begins to ache and in the short time I have been using the Kensington Foam Mouse Wristrest this has not been the case.

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They have several models and the one I reviewed has a shiny surface area that tends to make the use of an optical mouse a little problematic, however they do some other models, one I see is gel filled while another is described as for optical mouse users.

Certainly I have long used a wrist rest in front of my keyboard and nowadays a lot of keyboards are sold with either built in or attachable RSI strips so why not the same for the mouse mat.

The company Kensington are most famous for securing notebooks to desks and often you will hear people talk of Kensington locks these tend to be a piece of steel cable secured to a built in anchor point on a notebook.

As soon as my wrist landed on the padded area of the Foam Mouse Wristrest it felt right, no doubt ‘man years’ of testing have been carried out to produce exactly the correct height above the pad and exactly the right amount of give in the padding. I am told the price is £7.99 but as always shop around as others may have it for less. The website has a dazzling array of computer related accessory products available and if you are still looking for that certain something for Christmas then they may well have something to suit.

Link : www.kensingtonuk.co.uk/accessories/product.asp?id=1640&subsection=16