Friday, December 25, 2009

Rolee Polee


I purchased the "Rolee Polee" on October 27, 2009.  My intention in its procurement was to reduce movement between my keyboard and my mouse which are approximately one and one half feet apart.

One uses the Rolee Polee by holding it, as portraid in the thrid image to the right,  by placing ones index finger through the hole in the device and using ones thumb on the small trackball and two mouse buttons on top.

In principal this device is quite useful, allowing one a higher freedom of movement during mouse usage.  Even assuming proper functioning of the device itself, the Rolee Polee is not ideal for users who are switching between the keyboard and the mouse regularly.  To make use of the Rolee Polee, as previously described, the user must palce their index finger into a hole in the Rolee Polee.  When switching back to typing, the user must take the Rolee Polee off of their finger.  Thus, the time saved in not having to move ones hand to and from the mouse is lost and then some in the picking up and putting on of the Rolee Polee.

This flaw aside, the device in and of itself is defective.  The buttons on the device are fully functional.  There are two one the top, one representing the right mouse button and one representing an augmentation of clicking on the scroll wheel of the mouse.  Also, there is a "trigger" button located across the natural position of the users index finger which represents the left mouse button.  The track ball is the portion of the Rolee Polee which is highly defective.  It consists of a small, hard plastic, green ball running over a series of small rollers meant to track its motion.  This small hard plastic track ball is not large enough to fill the cavety carved out for it and thus does not have ample cohesion with the rollers.  Strangely the device works for a few minutes out of the box, however shortly there after movement of the mouse is largely limited to the horizontal plane.  Many online reviews of the product report similar problems with the device leading me to believe that I did not receive a lone defective unit. 

In fairness, for the short period of time during which the Rolee Polee was working, it was very comfortable to use and the positioning of the buttons and track ball felt natural and did not require any acclamation. 

In Summation
I would not suggest this purchace . Given the devices track record of being defective it is not worth the risk.  If you can find a higher quality track ball which would fill the cavety provided it may be a higher functioning tool, but as is, it is nearly useless after a day. 

Had I found their website prior to purchase I may have thought twice as well. 

DnL8Tar
-PCM

1 comment:

  1. Looking back I am concerned about the fact that I took time on Christmas day to post this.

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