Smooshy stylus for the iPhone / iPod Touch
Although the iPhone handles just wonderfully without a stylus, there is a small but vocal contingent of people who want one.
Perhaps these people do a lot of text entry on their iPhones and require an instrument of heightened dexterity. Maybe they are old Palm Pilot or Pocket PC users who just miss the feel of a stylus in their hands. Or maybe they are people who regularly need to hand their iPhones over to friends who cover the sleek touchscreen with their foul drippings... the sort of friends who don't wash their hands or wipe properly, yet are always touching your stuff, covering your pretty things in their fecal encrustations, until you just can't STAND it anymore and you just want to put your hands around their gobbling thoraxes and squeeze, squeeze, SQUEEZE until their faces go purple and their protruded eyeballs flop around their bloated cheeks and you NEVER have to worry about them touching your stuff EVER again.... for ever and ever and ever FOREVER.
For people like that, enter the iPhone Soft-Touch Stylus. It's an aluminum stylus with a soft rubber tip guaranteed not to scratch or damage your iPhone. I like the picture of it in action: it looks delightfully smooshy to use. $12.99 will get you one, although without a little stylus holster drilled into the iPhone itself, you're just going to lose it.
Soft-Touch Stylus [Daydeal.com]
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Or perhaps these people are women with fingernails. :-)
Thank you very little, John!! You caught me completely unprepared for that hilarious digression and helped to confirm my already-leery coworkers' suspicions that I may not be all there. My office mates rushed to my doorway following an explosive and uncontrollable guffaw, and found me gasping for sweet oxygen, my monitor spattered with coffee and a suspicious damp spot expanding from the crotch of my best slacks. I did my best "nothing more to see here" wave off, as speech was still impaired by my desperate gasps. For the most part the crowd has now dispersed. If there are consequences beyond me wearing sweat pants around the office for the rest of the day, I'll be looking to you for a job recommendation.
bah - put a real keyboard on it and make it as useful as it should be
@1 Initially, I was a member of that small and vocal stylus contingent: I actually started wearing my nails shorter to accommodate my iPhone. I might totally buy this.
I could go for this. I have a P2, which has a similar fingers-only touch screen, and it drives me crazy that I can't work it with gloves on.
I also used to do a fair amount of writing by tapping rapidly on my Handspring with a plastic mechanical pencil.
Lizardman: I believe the Macbook Air fulfills that market segment.
Bah - the macbook air is entirely useless (at least for me personally). It crosses the line as portable as it is because going that far in terms of size I am willing to just lug a real notebook without its comprimises. Give the iphone or touch a keyboard via slider or hinge and it gains a whole new level of practicality - actually what I really want is just a full browser experience on my treo.
" ...the sort of friends who don't wash their hands or wipe properly, yet are always touching your stuff, covering your pretty things in their fecal encrustations, until you just can't STAND it anymore and you just want to put your hands around their gobbling thoraxes and squeeze, squeeze, SQUEEZE until their faces go purple and their protruded eyeballs flop around their bloated cheeks and you NEVER have to worry about them touching your stuff EVER again.... for ever and ever and ever FOREVER."
Man ... I'm wearied of this stuff already. Is every post gonna read like this?
Tigerbomb - I'm not. If I was, perhaps I'd read CNet?