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iPhone Stylus with Flexible Tip
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There was a post about using a iphone/itouch if you have a prostetic arm. This would be useful in that situation.
Most people don't let a salesman tell them what they should like or not.
There are valid reasons for using a stylus. I use one when I'm drawing room diagrams to take to Home Depot.
My young daughter uses a stylus on my touch devices to learn how to write correctly. If it recognizes her characters, it converts it to typed text. She's learned a lot on her own that way.
There's a reason why fingerpainting isn't the only art form. And why we write letters with pens, not fingers dipped in ink. Touch is not the best at everything.
Nice.
I run an industrial design firm. We have to be able to whip out a quick sketch at a moments notice, to preserve ideas until we get back to the office to draw them properly. Now we'll finally be able to use a sketching program without our sketches looking like they were drawn by an alchoholic 2 year old with broken arm, one eye, while hanging upside down from a spinning ceiling fan...
I'm glad some of you can see no further than your own immediate lack of use for a stylus. It is the expression of your esteemed opinion that really matters.
I run an industrial design firm. We have to be able to whip out a quick sketch at a moments notice, to preserve ideas until we get back to the office to draw them properly. Now we'll finally be able to use a sketching program without our sketches looking like they were drawn by an alchoholic 2 year old with broken arm, one eye, while hanging upside down from a spinning ceiling fan...
I'm glad some of you can see no further than your own immediate lack of use for a stylus. It is the expression of your esteemed opinion that really matters.
Bummer. I was about to go to yodobashi camera to get one. I have the one from Ray-Out (orange packaging) and it works fine but the tip is a bit wide and I'd like something a little smaller. How big is the tip on this one? For example, would it fit through the hole on a 5 yen coin?
Yup, I don't need stylus. That's the beauty of the iPhone. It doesn't need stylus and performs probably better without one. Nice concept but thats all it has going for it.
If you do drawing, I can see where the stylus comes in useful but I don't so I probably don't need it.
If you do drawing, I can see where the stylus comes in useful but I don't so I probably don't need it.
Funny thing is that I've met a number of people who have said they're so used to typing on keyboards that it seems to make them forget how to actually write many characters with a pen.
I'll be able to use my phone in the winter WITHOUT having to take a glove off!
Holy crap, an actual use for the stylus, didn't think of that! I do find it somewhat annoying to have to take my gloves off when walking around Manhattan in the winter, just to answer or use my iPhone.
what if they made gloves with that material on the tips to simulate finger tips.. OR you can just cu tthe finger tip out of your gloves.
CrunchGear points to an interesting looking stylus from Japan that allows you to more precise movements than your finger might allow. Flickbook/FlipBook users may have this need.
The stylus is specially designed for the iPhone which typically only responds to finger touches due to its capacitive sensor. The $14.99 stylus is available from ThinkGeek.
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So where do you hide this 'stylus' after you are finished? I can imagine, mine would get lost pretty quickly!
-Glenn
Not everyone needs a stylus. Most won't need a stylus. But there are those who do. I use mine to write Chinese on my iPhone.
I using this:
http://www.geekgears.com/iphone-and-cell-phones/iphone-3g.html?accessory_type=130
Works well. Just not very convenient to carry around. Just clip it to my shirt pocket I guess.
I using this:
http://www.geekgears.com/iphone-and-cell-phones/iphone-3g.html?accessory_type=130
Works well. Just not very convenient to carry around. Just clip it to my shirt pocket I guess.
I'll be able to use my phone in the winter WITHOUT having to take a glove off!
That's one reason I was thinking. People in colder climates in the winter, or you're wearing gloves for some reason or on a constant basis for your profession.
Thats about all I can think of right now
My mother is 65 & she loves her iPhone but had a hard time text messaging & entering web sites using the keyboard. I got her a stylus & she can type much faster with it. I'm in my 40's & have a hard time sometimes hitting the right keys. Not enough to have to carry around a stylus, though. But like I said -- my mother really likes hers.
QFE.
I can see a couple of business people go for that stylus though. Or people with incredibly fat fingers. Or people who's dexterity is challenged.
Ok, so rolling with those analogies:
#1. On a roadtrip, people in the backseat might want to control what songs to play, the driver throws them the remote.
#2. The self sealing bag gets a tear in it (which seems to happen to me A LOT). Also, bags don't come with the chip clip. But the question isn't whether you use the chip clip with a self sealing bag, it's whether or not the chip clip has a market.
I would say anything you can imagine has a market. It's a matter of identifying the market, pricing it for the market and presentation to the market.... Also known as "marketing"..
If the world would have listened to the 'slashdot' crowd, the ipod would have never had a chance in hell. It was too expensive and only exclusively for the mac users. I think there was a whole entire list of other reasons why it was going to fail.
Do i think this stylist will be wildly successful? Not sure... But the clearest use for this tool is for drawing chinese oriental characters not as a drawing tool. Typing on the virtual keyboard with two thumbs works fine.... But I can imagine getting annoyed drawing such large strokes with your finger all the time. Using a stylist for drawing characters would be much faster and much more precise. Think about how much your fingers actually move when writing with a pencil. To do the same thing with your finger your finger has to move a whole heck of a lot more.
I wouldn't think of it out of the realm of possibilities that Apple actually comes out with a stylist for chinese writing. When steve said 'no need for an external stylist any more, we all have have one.' he was referring to the speed and accuracy navigating and typing typing with two thumbs in the english language. The chinese character drawing is a completely new avenue that wasn't initially introduced.
artists...
Just thought I'd add that a stylus is absolutely necessary to those of us who use programs like sketches to actually draw... you can't draw with your finger with any kind of accuracy, or subtlety. In fact, if you want to use your ipod to draw anything beyond a stick figure, you need some kind of stylus. People (and Steve Jobs) are obviously right about not needing a stylus, but saying it's totally useless is like saying that the Universal Access features of OSX are totally useless just because only a relatively small portion of mac users actually use them...
Just thought I'd add that a stylus is absolutely necessary to those of us who use programs like sketches to actually draw... you can't draw with your finger with any kind of accuracy, or subtlety. In fact, if you want to use your ipod to draw anything beyond a stick figure, you need some kind of stylus. People (and Steve Jobs) are obviously right about not needing a stylus, but saying it's totally useless is like saying that the Universal Access features of OSX are totally useless just because only a relatively small portion of mac users actually use them...
I can't see much use FOR ME, but I can see others that could use this. Problem with winter use is that if the phone rings you need to pull out stylus and then answer call rather than just pulling the glove off and hitting sliding to answer the call.
I tried to order one to see what it is like as I am a curious bugger, but would you believe that shipping costs to the uk are 26 dollars!!
So the thing would cost me over $40 and I have no interest in paying that for a stylus I don't really need.
Ps. I can see a use for this on a train or something where you are moving about. The accuracy should improve with a stylus.
I tried to order one to see what it is like as I am a curious bugger, but would you believe that shipping costs to the uk are 26 dollars!!
So the thing would cost me over $40 and I have no interest in paying that for a stylus I don't really need.
Ps. I can see a use for this on a train or something where you are moving about. The accuracy should improve with a stylus.
Nice design. They will sell a lot probably. They will sell a lot for one reason. People are morons.
The iPhone does not need a stylus. Yet, people will buy one and use it (for a time) anyway.
The iPhone does not need a stylus. Yet, people will buy one and use it (for a time) anyway.