Think I’ve found the 2007 rising of The Blob. Doing some desk clean-up and see the need to replace my mouse pad gel wrist rest. It’s becoming disembowled and look what evil lurks beneath the stitching:

Is that stuff hazardous to touch? If so, I’m doomed. So close to Halloween it is giving me Blob creeps. Had to pause from the action this morning to try and figure out what this gel is made of.

Scary, a prior art patent conflict over gelatinous goo:

A wrist rest (10) has in its core resilient, deformable gelatinous material (50). Gelatinous material (50) consists of a solution of glycol-like material, which is highly deformable due to its liquid state … Gelatinous material (50) is encased in an elastic envelope.

You’d think the gelatinous good was as secret as the Coca-cola recipe by how it evaded my Google search queries. Lots of patent-related posts were turned up and inside what I scanned (ok, didn’t read every word) more often than not the phrase “gelatinous material” is used in these patents.

But is gelatinous material safe, Senor? It might be there for ergonomic reasons, but is its innards pure evil incarnate?

Not safe to eat, mind you, but will it ooze out while we’re moving the mouse, envelope our bodies and slowly devour us inside its eerie brown substance? Have to get rid of this thing. Now.

Or can I?