thumb control

The overhand method works well, too, but the thumb controls the tension wrench instead.

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Anthony Thumbs controls Trenton.

It has a five-inch liquid crystal display and a thumb control that operates much like a navigation button on a Pocket PC.

"Nah," he said, and dug into a pocket for a datapad, which he scanned with a thumb control until my lovely phiz smiled back at us.

Keyboards with a greater number of keys adjacent to the space bar, such as Japanese keyboards, allow thumb control of both the Meta and Control keys.

Features articulating, shock-absorbing foot pedals, adjustable 19-24-inch stride length, 9 preset programs, transport wheels, water bottle holder, electromagnetic brake system and patented Lite Touch Thumb Control.

The controls mimic dual-analog sticks from consoles, with your thumb on the left side controlling forward and backward motions, as well as strafing, and your right thumb controlling aiming.

The pads are controlled by pressing a number of keys with the fingers of the left and right hands; the left thumb controls an octave key which opens one or other of the speaker holes.

The team has now moved onto a trial with transhumeral amputees (amputation at the elbow level), with the hope that median nerve transfer in transradial amputation could potentially provide thumb control.

"The finger and thumb control lever works in a small quadrant which is marked at the top "Traffic" then "High" and at the bottom "Low" and finally "Cold" with spaces in between.

The design of the Cloudbook is intended so it can be held in one hand while typing, or in two hands when using the mouse-cursor control, with the left thumb controlling the two "mouse buttons", and the right thumb the small trackpad, both mousepad and keys are placed directly under the screen.