Anker USB Wired Vertical Mouse, Ergonomic Design Mouse for Computer and Laptop, 5 Buttons, 1000/1600 DPI, Optical Technology, USB Corded - Black

I started using this vertical mouse after feeling some discomfort in my arm from a traditional mouse. I work from home and within a short time, I noticed a real difference in how my arm felt during and after work. The vertical design feels more relaxed and less “twisted” during long work sessions. I genuinely wish I had switched to a vertical mouse sooner! The difference in comfort over a full workday is incredible. If you spend long hours on a computer and experience any wrist or arm discomfort this is an easy switch that can make your workday much more comfortable.

Anker Ergonomic Optical USB Wired Vertical Mouse REVIEW: Life is short, ergonomics matter tremendously in today's world. DISCOVERING THE WIRELESS SHARK MOUSE I first stumbled upon this mouse design while cleaning up a computer office for family. Someone had bought the wireless version, back when it's brand name was "SHARK". It was still sealed/unboxed and was given to me for helping out. This was a perfect way to test out the design with nothing to lose. I will say, the wireless version of this mouse was a total waste of time productivity-wise. It lagged, would intermittently stop working (batteries were fresh and replaced twice), would disconnect while holding down a scroll bar, and it was hard to pinpoint anywhere on the screen with certainty. I even used a USB extension cable which rested the USB RF transmitter directly beside the mouse and it still was not signalling well! When my CPU was performing heavy work, it disrupted the feedback to the mouse. Tested it on various devices--same thing. That really disrupts work when using spatially explicit software or just in general. 2.4GHz is a disruptive, bombarding frequency because too many things, including routers, are using it nowadays. WIRELESS HAD A TERRIBLE SIGNAL, BUT THE DESIGN WAS INCREDIBLE While those old RF chips are faulty as usual, the wireless Shark DESIGN was amazing, both ergonomic and beautiful. For the first time in my life I was not stopping work and shaking out my hands to relieve the strain. Using the mouse came so naturally I never had to "get used to it" and obviously traditional mice are medieval relics that need to disappear...that is ergonomics in a nutshell. After using the wireless SHARK for the first week I realized just how much pain I was in for years...it just became normal. Everywhere you go there lies the dumb traditional mouse--you get so used to fighting them with your hand and their prevalence and supposed normalcy. You would not believe how important ergonomics are for your tendons and ligaments. Humans even write out on paper at the same angle as holding this mouse, hence, keyboards are also ancient relics that are inflaming people's ligaments and leading them to the doctor. THE MOUSE THAT SHOULD REPLACE THEM ALL Whoever designed this mouse got it right! Traditional mice are like wearing clogs. The Anker wired mouse is like wearing modern shoes...which have an industry standard for ergonomics. The form is near perfect, and I am thinking the patent is so simple yet spot-on that that is where the value lies...otherwise they are simply putting buttons in different places in a new mold. So, I knew this was the mouse for me, but it needed to be wired (we are 10 years away from having real performance for wireless mice. Safe yourself the trouble and never buy one--I do not hold that against Anker). I found the Anker Ergonomic Optical USB Wired Vertical Mouse as the new licensed retailer using this mouse patent. It should still be named the SHARK, because sharks stopped evolving as their form became so efficient there was no need to change it. There is almost no excuse to make traditional mice anymore--they are PROVEN to go against our natural form and hurt people! If you work 8 hours a day at a computer full-time, just imagine how much time that is twisting your arms into unnatural positions FOR HOURS...even days, weeks, months, or years of your life. BRAND LOYALTY IS GROWING It arrived unboxed and quality sealed, no funny business. Anker's version has a high-quality logo print on the mouse and looks great. My computer office setup is all Red RGB-based lighting, and the Anker's red LED in the mouse looks stunning with my system. I am saying goodbye for now to my HP OMEN Mouse X9000, as it helped for years with its bigger design, but its still causing ulnar and carpal strain being horizontal. The Anker is much cheaper in price, but to me far more valuable than my X9000. I am very impressed with the packaging, the mouse hardware quality, and the response on the screen. It has a good heavier weight for easy gliding. I also have owned an Anker USB 3.0 extender with built-in Ethernet dongle for over 3 years and that has been a high-quality workhorse for my data needs to this day. I am beginning to trust Anker products. They may invent some items or rebrand a patent, but they seem to endorse only quality designs. PRICE DOES NOT GUARANTEE A BETTER MOUSE FOR BIGGER HANDS After researching all other ergonomic mice, I realized that I may never find a reasonable one for hands of my size that work as well as Anker's. I am a tall man, and my hands are 8 inches long. You will notice most "large" ergonomic mice designs support 7.8" hands and the more material they use the higher the price. The more volume the product, the more bells and whistles they squeeze into its housing to up sell it. I used to think, if I am going to find a mouse that works, it surely will cost a lot of money and I was right. Some "large ergonomic" mice had the size I needed, but poor reviews outlining problems such as with silly placed back/forward buttons which as we know can completely erase what you write out and destroy it with one accidental back button click. A lot of otherwise good designs were only wireless...a complete waste of time and energy. There is 0 latency with wired mice, but nothing is guaranteed with any wireless mouse, Bluetooth or RF. Well, it appeared difficult to get both the proper ergonomics coupled with increased size without spending $100+ and poor reviews. So the Anker meets me half way for a reasonable price and size. Its back/forward buttons are above the thumb, letting your hand "rest" the way it should. My hands are still bigger than being able to fully grip the mouse (try 99% of them), but because my hand can rest on the desk in a natural angle, it has little bearing on the ergonomic factor. I believe Anker is providing a very clever mouse worthy of being the standard replacement of any traditional mice. Ergonomics = better health. Ergonomics matter. Stop paying money for technology that doesn't adapt to YOU. SUMMARY With virtually none of the mice are looking like they will meet my size needs without some hidden flaw, at least I found one that doesn't hurt my wrists anymore and is award winning, made to help change the world, help people's health and productivity. It seemed wise to buy this renowned design as my first entry ergonomic mouse, and go from there. My carpal tunnel has vanished and my hand can somewhat hug this mouse! That is a first. It was the right place to start for a good price. Thank you Anker and Shark! I love it!

Oh where should I start off with this mouse. I bought this mouse because I noticed I've been getting pain after using my traditional mouse for extended periods of time, and it's only been worse and worse. So for $20 this mouse wasn't much for me, figured I had nothing to lose. When you first put your hand on this mouse, it feels incredible, the hand rests really well, almost like a glove. However, you may notice that for the first hour or two, you might actually feel incredibly uncomfortable, not painful but you may not like it. But once your hand gets used to it, oh man there is a night and day difference. I can't even go back to my old mouse. It's all well good but there are some caveats, you may need to get rid of some your old "mousing" habits.. For example, I didn't realize some people use three fingers when using their mouse — index finger on the left button, middle finger on the scroll wheel, and ring finger on the right button. Me, I'm a two finger kind of guy, index finger for left button and scroll wheel, and middle finger on right button. So to say the least, I wasn't very enthusiastic when I realized I would need to use three fingers for this mouse. Why, you ask? Well I don't have particularly large hands however I realized that if I used two fingers, the angle between my two fingers was so great that my pinky finger would always try to get off the mouse, and consequently it would rub off on the table even if I tried squishing my ring finger and pinky finger together on the portion where your fingers rest. So that means I have to use three fingers so that only my pinky finger is resting, it will take a lot of getting used to but oh well. Had they made the mouse a little taller this probably wouldn't have been much of a problem. Scroll wheel kinda sucks, I was used to my scroll wheel being able to move side to side and downwards, but this wheel only clicks downwards. Not a big probablem, that's what those buttons to turn the pages are for but it just feels really weird for me. Scroll also requires quite a bit of force to scroll and push down although I think it just needs to broken into, I'm sure it'll have less friction with time. While the computer is shut off, the glowing red light on the side stays on, I keep my computer in my bedroom but thankfully it hides under my desk, anyone buying this mouse should know that, unless you unplug the computer or mouse. Then there's the issue of heat transfer. Now my old mouse didn't fit in my hand like a glove, so I was only coming into contact with it with my finger tips and two contact points off the palm of my hand, so there was always air moving through. With this one though, since you're making 100% contact, it's as if you were holding another hand so a lot heat gets transferred to the mouse but it doesn't go away easily resulting in a sweaty hand, especially when you're grabbing it for extended periods of time. To me it's not much of an issue, just remove your hands for a few seconds every now and then and swipe it on your shirt or something, a small annoyance but not much. That is about all for this mouse, it's great, and I think it's miles better than a traditional mouse but it does have its caveats.

I originally bought this for a few reasons. 1. My wrist pain was coming back, again, with the use of the traditional mouse. 2. At the time, the mouse I was using was a Death Adder 2013. It was getting old. In addition, while the app for the Death Adder was good, there were a few of times where I had to either reinstall on the PC, and eventually, I had to drop back a revision on both my Mac and PC. This made it pain to switch back and forth from PC to Mac. Quite simply put, the company, Razer, shot itself in the foot with one of the updates, and the mouse could no longer function on either machine, even with the firmware update. 3. While I found the concept of the Vertical Mouse an interesting prospect, I didn’t want to spend a ton of money on something that I wasn’t sure would actually help. With that said; I originally bought this mouse back in September of 2018 and, I’m surprised to say, it has worked for me. I never needed to use the wrist brace that I bought at the same time. I’m using this mouse daily and I’m content with the product. So, because of the price point, I later came back and bought a second one, just to have as a back up. But, the first one is still working, while second is still in the box. It’s now May of 2019. Now, I’m not a big gamer, at all. In fact, I’m not suffering just because of gaming, but really, from years of fatigue using a traditional mouse. However, I can say that extreme gamers will probably not find this mouse to be the best in serving their extreme gaming needs. But, hey, if you’re suffering, well, it works and personally, I’d rather have the longevity of being able to still use a mouse rather than barely using one while having to wear brace which really impairs one’s movement. So, can it be used for games? Yes, I do. The reality is, after my version of a real world testing, I think this method of holding a mouse is actually better and it didn’t take me long to adapt to the change. I think hardcore gamers, or even hardcore computer users, in general, might find this to be adequate at relieving their wrist pain. Because, it’s working for me. Which means, if this company steps up to making higher resolution mice, I might want one. Or, if companies would stick to making this approach more affordable in gaming mice, I would be interested. Either way, this product is priced well, and the methodology helped relieve my wrist pain. Obviously, not everyone can benefit from new designs, but it’s working for me. The one fall back is that the scroll-click is awkward, and if you use a lot of scroll-clicking, it might frustrate you. But, the two side buttons are well placed, right next to your thumb. Also, this is a wired mouse. I like wired mice, because, I hate having to replace batteries. I especially hate it when I’m in the zone of doing something and then the battery starts to die. lol Either way, from what I remember, they do have a wireless version of this mouse. They’re just not for me, I just hate wireless mice. Note that if you’re multi-platform user, there are no drivers. Just plug and go. I switch back and forth on my A/B switcher for Mac OSX [Yosemite] and PC [WinX Pro 64]. It just works. Woot!

This is the first vertical mouse I have ever purchased. I was absolutely uninterested in vertical mice, however I suffered some pain in my wrist (playing video games with my nephew lol) My wrist was clicking and had some unusual discomfort. It was suggested that I try a vertical mouse for computing so I bought this mouse because the price was affordable for a item that I truly did not want and planned to use for a few weeks only. (some of the other brands that i compared to this are 89-120 dollars!) In a nutshell... i may never go back to a traditional mouse? In just a week or two i became used to the awkwardness and i new did bring out my other mouse. I still am using this Anker vertical '98anwvm-ba' mouse even as i type this review. I have used it for about everything imaginable from browsing to word processing and even for gaming! I was so amazed that it was so comfortable for playing games. Now after owning it feel silly for even thinking it may not work as well for games, after all it is a mouse in every respect and functions as well as any good mouse I have ever owned. I have been using it now for about 6 months and it still seems like new. I spend more than 4 hours on the computer a day so I am sure that it is very durable. I really like this mouse and I am pleased that such a well constructed mouse is this affordable. The appearance is very nice and all the parts look and feel to be high quality parts. The buttons and scroll wheel and lighted accent of dim un-obnoxious light are all VERY well constructed and the mouse appears to cost 3-4 times its actual value. Here some redundant info that some people like to hear from a actual owner to be sure there is no misrepresentation: - The mouse is corded. - It has 5 buttons (not including the mouse wheel which is 3 function - rolls forward / backward / and presses down) left mouse right mouse forward browse back browse and one additional button that I never new about until just now when I looked at the mouse to write this section of the review bwahahaha ( i wonder if its a dpi select?) I am not sure what it does ill update this review when i found out. ohh as I play with it now i think it IS a dpi select but I am hesitant to say for sure because i just learned about it. - It emits a red light if you turn it upside down (used for tracking) it is not visible at all when using the mouse in its normal position. - The scroll wheel does feel like it has a textured roller mechanism when you roll it but it is almost completely silent when i use it in fact i think it could be easily be written in the product description that it has a silent scroll wheel. - There is a very attractive and very dim blue light accent that is only on the thumb side of the mouse which is very nice because it allows me to see the mouse when i sit down at the computer but it does not send light in any direction across the room since it faces only the user. even in a totally dark room the accent does not cast enough light to even see the keys on my keyboard unless i quite literally touch the mouse to the key I am trying to see.. this is important to me as I use the computer late at night I dont like extra accent lights to be disturbing to others in the room. - Model number "98ANWVM-BA" Seriously this mouse is in the 15 dollar range and it is VERY VERY good quality, i suspect they find it hard to sell vertical mice so they lowered the price to attract customers? well it really worked on me and this is one of those great deals you should not pass if you are at all interested. i honestly don't think you will be disappointed.

Outstanding ergonomic mouse! I use a KVM so I needed a corded mouse - works great, looks sharp - very comfortable to use for long periods of time.

I purchased this mouse to use a secondary mouse for casual and long hour use outside of gaming. My main mouse is a Logitech G600, which is excellent. This cannot replace a proper gaming mouse for me, but it does great for work projects and casual use that doesn't require swift, precise, and instantaneous movement. Getting used to the new movement angle is easier than I thought it'd be and I expect it to become second nature in about a week. I do wish they made a smaller version of this mouse as it's quite large and if you have smaller to medium hands like I do, reaching the buttons and grasping the mouse is a bit of a pain and doesn't feel natural. These are minor problems however. Now for the big issue. It takes significant force to press down on the right or left click buttons. It's not difficult or anything, but this creates one major setback that almost ruins the function of the mouse entirely. Because of the pressure required, and the position of your hand, sometimes pressing down causes a small amount of force that will result in you micro dragging the mouse to the left. This is huge. This makes it so that if you click something, you may not have a registered click because it's instead considered a drag despite how fast it happens. So it either doesn't register the click, or you accidentally drag something somewhere. This is frustrating to say the least. It's bad design. With a regular horizontal mouse, you press downward on the buttons instead of to the side, so it does not move the mouse at all. With a vertical mouse, this should have been considered. The buttons need a softer, easier click response to offset the fact that it is vertical. The pressure required is too high. If Anker were to update this mouse and make it require less pressure to press the click buttons, I believe this mouse would be unbeatable for the price. As it stands, I can't recommend the mouse as this design oversight completely ruins the function. EDIT: Anker reached out to me. They always have had stellar customer service in my experience and offered to refund me. I denied the refund/return stating that I love the mouse, but with one large caveat; I just want them to take note of my review as the oversight I mention in my review is all that keeps this mouse from being unbeatable for the price. A lower rating was the best way to gain attention. I received another email stating that they'll take note in the future and that they will take care of me anyway. I've changed my review to 3 stars for their great customer service. I just wish there was a better way to make known these issues to the team responsible for design.

This really helps with my shaking. Very comfortable, the ergonomic design spot on !

Sie funktioniert gut. Am Anfang dauerte es ein paar Stunden, bis ich genau so zielsicher wie mit einer alte Logitech war. Auch passierte es öfter, beim Wechsel von der Tastatur zur Maus, dass ich die Maus umwarf, da die Unterkante der Hand an der oberen Spitze streifte. Die Oberfläche ist überall gummiert, fühlt sich gut an. Die Tasten haben einen leichten Klick-Druckpunkt, das Rädchen bewegt sich leicht genug mit leichtem Einrasten. Das Kabel ist mir einen Tick zu (dick und zu) störrisch. Ich benutzte sie bisher nur auf einem Mauspad mit blauer Stoff-Oberfläche. Wenn sie kaputt ginge, würde ich sie aber glatt noch mal kaufen. Verbesserungsvorschlag: an der rechten Seite unten findet der kleine Finger/kaum Halt, dort sollte auch eine Vertiefung hin, so wie die Große Delle an der linken Seite für den Daumen. Die Maus rutscht beim abheben/versetzen bei mir zu leicht nach unten durch. Für meine Handschuhgröße 8,5-9 könnte die Maus einen cm flacher/kleiner sein. Auch werde ich sie mal öffnen um zu schauen warum sie nicht leichter ist, ab da Gewichte drin sind. Oder nur das Gehäuse ist dick, sie wirkt stabil und knarzt nicht. Hätte ich eine Mausfabrik, würde ich versuchen für die rechte Seite eine Heizung einzubauen.

I like it, it's so comforting

The mouse gets a lot of use; I have to say it is quite comfortable once you get over the initial weird-ness of having the mouse this shape; I can deal with many more hours of computing before my hands feel stiff.

Works great, bought it to ease the strain on my wrist and help with carpal tunnel etc, and i think it is helping. Takes maybe a day to get used to using a vertical mouse compared to the traditional mice.

Empecé a buscar alternativas a mi viejo mouse debido a que recientemente comencé a padecer síndrome del tunel del carpo. Escuché que este mouse era muy bueno en cuanto a ergonomía y pude comprobar que sí lo es. Si bien tardé un poco en acostumbrarme al modo vertical, he notado mejoría en mi salud (junto a un buen teclado, por supuesto) . Algo que particularmente me encantó es el botón para cambiar la velocidad del puntero, requiriendo el mínimo esfuerzo para mover el mismo, esto es muy útil, especialmente si cuentas con 2 monitores o más.