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title: "Elecom HUGE Trackball"
date: 2021-09-17T10:27:39-04:00
categories: [input hardware, elecom]
tags: [trackball, black]
draft: true
---

![Elecom HUGE Trackball [Black, Red]](/images/fujitsupfuhhkbpro2stock.jpg)

I wasn't born using a trackball. It was something I had to learn to become 
proficient with, and the first week of using it after a lifetime of using a  
traditional mouse was very frustrating, but now that I've gotten back up to 
my typical first-person shooter ability, (which, admittedly, was never very 
strong, but at least now I don't feel like I can "blame the controller,") I 
actually feel liberated. I no longer need a significant amount of desk space 
to operate a pointing device with comfort and accuracy.

I've always liked laptop solutions for pointing devices; before the trackpad, 
I am very familliar with IBM's "trackpoint," and heavily considered buying a 
TEX Yoda or Shinobi, but ultimately decided against it because I didn't want 
my pointer to be physically tied to a Cherry-MX style keyboard. 

Admittedly, I am not big fan of the trackpoint's successor, the trackpad; I 
always find myself running out of pad while trying to click and drag an item 
across the screen. I even tried out Apple's external "Magic Trackpad" 
accessory, which did somewhat mitigate the problem with its larger surface 
area, but not eliminate it completely.

I bought this because I wanted an index finger trackball instead of a thumb  
trackball, which are much more prevalent in the trackball market. It ships 
with far more buttons and features than I actually needed, but this seems to 
be one of the only wired index finger trackballs with a larger navigation 
sphere.

My only gripe with trackballs is that inevitably, with use, the dead skin 
cells that would normally build-up on a traditional mouse's buttons is now 
deposited onto the bearings that keep the artificial ruby orb turning 
smoothly, making regular cleaning a necessity for continuous operation as 
opposed to just not looking like a slob.

