Today, thanks to X Trac Pads, we’re reviewing the MouseGrips v2. We have all been in that situation where you’re playing a game (or even just browsing the web!) and you get sweaty palms, or you’re eating greasy food at the same time and holding onto your mouse can be a bit of a pain. Well that is where these Mouse Grips can help you out. They’re 10 small super grippy bits of rubber that you can stik your your mouse (or joystick, track ball etc) to help with grip. Today here at Techneek we are going to take a look at them and see if they’re worth the money.
The mouse grips cost between $10-15, and come in very basic (but perfect) packaging very similar to the card CD cases. The back of the packaging has the instructions on it, which as you can see from the above photo they are very simple (1: Clean. 2: Install)! Inside you find the rubber parts and a small cleaning cloth.
Following the very simple steps, the first thing to do was clean down the mouse with the provided cloth. I personally found the cloth to be a little bit on the tiny side - but it is nice that they even included this! I would have expected most companies to just leave you upto your own devices when it comes to the initial cleaning.
It was quite suprising how dirty my mouse actually was - so if anything it was more than a great excuse to give it a clean. After letting it dry after a couple of minutes, I set out to work out what rubber pads I wanted to use. As you can see from the following photo there is a lot of choice, and I doubt many people would want to use every pad on one mouse.
The rubber pads are very “grippy” and I can’t say I can think of ever using a more “grippy” material. Even just on the sticker sheet it is easy to tell they’re going to do a great job.
After selecting what ones to apply to the mouse, I put them on. I found that the biggest one (bottom left in above photo) wouldn’t quite work propperly with my mouse, as the shape of it meant it overlapped, however although it looks a bit annoying when using the mouse I found I couldn’t even feel it so left it.
When using it for both gaming and general web/photoshop type work I was actually very suprised about just how handy they can be. I was expecting to notice it being handy when I have sweaty hands (or when eating!) but it is easy to tell that even for normal computer use your mouse and hand definitely feel more attached.
At first, before trying the grips out, I didn’t think they would be as great as they are. You may not realise it until you try a mouse with mouse grips, but even with “non sweaty” hands your mouse isn’t really ever “gripped” to your hand. You have to almost hold your mouse. The mouse grips mean you can literally just move your hand and the mouse will follow with it. I am surprised grips like these are not already installed on most popular gaming mice.
I can definitely recommend the mouse grips, especially considering their very low price. 9/10! Find out more about them here.