Mousepad

A mouse pad, mouse pad or even just pad is a special document which is intended to improve the work with a mouse.

Variants

Textilpads

The somewhat outdated, but still common type of mouse scans the table surface with a rubber-coated bullet. However, since many surfaces did not provide optimum adhesion for the balls, they developed special documents that allow the mouse housing while to easily slide over, but prevent the ball from sliding instead of rolling. The latter is necessary so that the signal -rolling the mouse can be moved.

Textilpads have a textile surface, which is adhered to an approximately four millimeters thick foam layer. The foam primarily ensures that the pad stays in place, in the second place, that the hand rests soft.

Modern Mouse

The "modern" mousepad is made ​​of different materials. The best represented in pads are made ​​from plastic, fabric, glass or metal. Also a combination of different materials is possible. These pads usually have rounded edges, are ergonomically and as flat as possible. Some ergonomic mouse pads have a flexible elevated palm rest. This requirement is intended to prevent an unnatural bending of the hand when using the mouse. The gel pads can vary in their strength.

Today, especially, the surface structure of the pad is crucial because mice have such displaced with optical scanning with trackballs.

Computer players prepare their mouse pads, except Stoffpads, sometimes with silicone spray to make possible precise movements with the mouse. Another alternative to improve the properties of a mouse pad, the use of Teflonpads which are subsequently bonded to the mouse side. By the two methods, which are also applied simultaneously, the friction is reduced.

An elastic thickening with an ergonomically designed mouse pad allows the laying on of hands in the area of the wrist without kinking. This greatly reduces the stress of working with the mouse.

Gaming Mouse Pads

In the professional electronic sports the mouse pad gets a lot of importance as it has a strong influence on the clarity of the physical movements of e- sports playing. The partially developed specifically for the sports surfaces, release the mouse sometimes literally glide across the pad and take insofar positive impact on the play behavior of the user. Nowadays firms are even together with professional teams from the e- sports to develop high-quality pads.