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Moldable Mouse prevents strain injury, and distracts the sculpture-minded

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Erwin Lui, the CALTY designer responsible for the original Lexus Coupe, famously devised that car’s form by manipulating a balloon filed with modeling clay. Lite-On Technology is using a similar technique for their Red-Dot-Award-winning Moldable Mouse, crafted from modeling clay skinned with a nylon/polyurethane blend. Completely knead-able and possessed with shape memory, the silky-feeling mouse is designed to prevent carpal tunnel by letting the user change the form at will. It may…