Long hours at a computer do terrible things to your wrist. Moving a mouse back and forth across a desk for eight hours a day creates repetitive strain that builds up over months and years, eventually turning into chronic pain that makes even simple tasks uncomfortable. Most people just accept this as the cost of desk work, but trackballs offer a different approach by keeping your hand stationary and moving the cursor with a ball instead, reducing wrist travel and arm movement.
Elecom’s HUGE Plus is the latest evolution of its flagship ergonomic trackball, aimed at creators, engineers, and anyone who spends serious time pushing pixels around multiple screens. It takes the original HUGE trackball and updates it with tri-mode connectivity, a rechargeable battery, and deeper customization options, while keeping the oversized ball and full palm support that made the original a favorite among ergonomic enthusiasts who take their input devices seriously.
Designer: Elecom
The physical design is impossible to miss. A large, sculpted body with an integrated cushioned palm rest that supports your entire hand, keeping your wrist at a natural angle without any awkward bending. The trackball sits under your index and middle fingers while your thumb and ring finger fall naturally onto the side buttons and a scroll wheel. It’s a desk-anchored device that occupies about the same footprint as a keyboard, trading portability for comfort and stability.
The trackball itself is a 52-millimeter sphere finished in metallic silver, noticeably larger than most consumer trackballs. That size, combined with an IR optical sensor and adjustable DPI settings of 500, 1000, or 1500, gives you both pixel-level precision and fast cursor movement across big displays. The ball rides on swappable MinebeaMitsumi steel bearings that you can remove for cleaning or replace with synthetic ruby units if you want even smoother rotation.
Connectivity is where the HUGE Plus really modernizes the design. It supports three connection modes at once: wired USB-C, 2.4 GHz wireless via a tiny dongle, and Bluetooth 5.3. You can pair three devices simultaneously and switch between them with a side slider, which is genuinely useful if you bounce between a desktop, laptop, and tablet throughout the day.
The button layout is dense but purposeful. Ten programmable buttons, including the main clicks, a tilt-scroll wheel for horizontal scrolling, and several function buttons clustered around the ball and thumb area. Elecom’s Mouse Assistant software lets you map these to shortcuts for editing, browsing, or design tools, turning the trackball into a macro pad under your hand. The clicks are silent, which keeps noise down without sacrificing the tactile feedback you need to know a button actually registered.
The HUGE Plus looks the part of a specialized tool. Matte black body, silver ball, subtle branding, and a sculpted form that signals precision rather than generic consumer electronics. It’s meant for people who want a dedicated control surface that stays comfortable all day and adapts to however many devices their workflow demands, without forcing them to choose between ergonomics and connectivity.
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