Hold one of your hands up, palm out, and cross your thumb over it.

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And the body length, which was once tailored to hit at the end of the thumb, has now inched up to the palm.

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An active palm rest rounds out the modules, with a thumb-wheel and additional action button -- it's joined by a pair of (yet again) adjustable wrist rests that anchor along the bottom edge.

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