“The flat, rigid shape of today’s mouse forces the hand into an unnatural position,” Nazarbayev University Associate ...

Researchers built two prototype mice, one with a squeezable body and another with a hinged A-frame, in an ergonomic overhaul of the desktop PC staple.

The Jelfin Mouse is a desktop blob, a ball-shaped mouse with a soft gel covering. It is also “designed to fit your hand perfectly”, and “the World’s first ball-shaped computer mouse covered in gel”*.

Nearly six decades after its invention, the design of the computer mouse has remained largely unchanged—with serious ...