Why I love the Logitech MX Vertical wireless mouse

Victoria Song is simply a elder reviewer astatine The Verge who mostly focuses connected wellness tech and wearables and who, she says, occasionally has “existential crises complete silly gadgets I bought connected TikTok against my amended judgment.” One of her favourite gadgets is the Logitech MX Vertical wireless mouse.

When did you get the Logitech MX Vertical?

I sewage this rodent successful March 2022, truthful conscionable astir 3 years agone now. But I’ve been a vertical rodent enthusiast since I reviewed the Evoluent VerticalMouse C for PCMag in 2016.

Why did you get it?

I’d been utilizing Anker’s wireless vertical mouse for astir 3 and a half years. It yet crapped retired connected maine aft my feline batted it from my desk. RIP. I didn’t emotion that it required a USB dongle for connectivity, and I had only heard bully things astir Logitech’s type from different vertical rodent fans, truthful I opted to ammunition retired a spot more.

What do you for illustration astir it?

You tin usage it wired aliases wirelessly, and the artillery lasts months connected a azygous charge. Switching cursor velocity is easy, and it’s sewage 2 customizable buttons correct complete the thumb. I mostly usage it for guardant and back, but it’s ace convenient. I utilized to get wrist symptom from utilizing regular mice, and now I person zero wrist pain.

Is location thing astir it that you wish were different aliases that would amended it?

This is kinda gross, but it’s a dormant tegument magnet. Every erstwhile successful a while, you person to return a cleaning swipe and really scrub that textured grippy area down, aliases you’ll person crusty, dusty imprints of your hand, bordered by dormant skin. And I do mean a cleaning wipe. At first, I was wiping this point down pinch a teeny spot of soap and a damp insubstantial towel — nope. That aforesaid area besides gets worn down by digit oil, truthful moreover if you regularly cleanable it, it tin extremity up looking a spot greasy aft a fewer weeks. The bottommost is besides a particulate and feline hairsbreadth magnet. Basically, I cleanable this rodent much than I should person to.

Otherwise, I wish it came successful much colors for illustration the cheaper Logitech Lift, which comes successful achromatic and pink. I was tempted to switch, but unfortunately, I person soft fingers and the Lift’s smaller size doesn’t activity for me. Even connected the MX Vertical, my scale and mediate fingers widen beyond the mouse’s edge.

Who would you urge it to?

Anyone who has hobbies that dangle connected a healthy, pain-free wrist. Before switching to vertical mice, I had a batch of wrist and manus cramping from utilizing trackpads, regular mice, and each my handwriting. I’ve been moving connected each of that, but it was truthful overmuch harder for maine to set my earthy pen grip than it was to adopt a vertical mouse. And I’m not kidding erstwhile I said my wrist symptom vanished almost overnight — and comes backmost whenever I person to usage my laptop’s trackpad connected a activity trip.

Anything else?

I’ve been utilizing vertical mice for adjacent to a decade now, but I distinctly retrieve that it took a fewer days earlier I felt really comfortable.

Also, the MX Vertical doesn’t person a left-handed version. So if you’re a southpaw, you mightiness want to look for a vertical rodent exemplary that has some versions. (It’s baffling, but the Logitech Lift has some left- and right-handed versions, moreover if the MX Vertical doesn’t…)

What other are you doing these days?

These days, I’ve been exploring gadgets that aren’t smartwatches — smart glasses, smart rings, AI wearables, CGMs, and moreover an NFC nail chip. I’m besides trying to get backmost into different training artifact aft I sewage derailed by a acold and immoderate bad weather. (Training blocks are periods of system workouts wherever you attraction connected a circumstantial goal. My adjacent 1 is going to beryllium a 12-week artifact wherever I effort to amended my 5K moving speed.) Lately, I’ve besides been trying to get backmost into my non-work hobbies, for illustration calligraphy and scrapbooking.