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AT 1:53 PM
Friday June 5, 2009

gecko • palm • pre • touchstone • video

Video: Palm Pre's Touchstone dock's amazing grip

Whether it uses carbon nanotubes to mimic geckos' feet or not, there's no doubt that the surface of the Palm Pre's inductive Touchstone charger is really, really impressive. It's doesn't feel gummy or tacky, either.

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19 Comments

Brandon West

#1 – 4:54 PM June 5, 2009

That's cool. Does it stick if you get it wet?

Halloween Jack

#2 – 5:01 PM June 5, 2009

Palm needs to market gloves and slipper-socks that have that on the soles and palms, then. Even if I'm stuck with my old jesusPhone for a while, I can get some schweet Palm schwag.

mmbb_c

#3 – 5:13 PM June 5, 2009

I've had a mousepad-sized piece of that material on my car's dashboard for 3-4 years now. Washing it with soap diminished its effectiveness, but rinsing it with alcohol perked it back up to nearly-new condition. It was a sample from a materials conference.

dculberson

#4 – 8:39 PM June 5, 2009

HalloweenJack, that way you can walk up and down the aisles in the zero-gravity airline flights that are coming up Any Day Now (tm).

grimc

#5 – 8:40 PM June 5, 2009

Any comment on Gizmodo's "Palm Pre will slice up your hand whenever you open it"?

Anonymous Anonymous

#6 – 10:38 PM June 5, 2009

On Monday, iPhone 3.0 is released with a gecko-like exterior casing design.

chroma

#7 – 1:13 PM June 6, 2009

Does it pick up dirt?

Alex

#8 – 6:55 PM June 6, 2009

I'm very excited about Gecknology!

FutureNerd

#9 – 12:30 AM June 7, 2009

Aargh, Vimeo! From this supposedly 1:14 video I got 10 still frames (4 after the talking stopped) in six minutes thru my cable modem / wifi / 700GHz G3. Video formats that aren't either least- common- denominator, or adapt to their environment, um, i don't like so much on web pages, personally.

Nice sticky rock. It should look like one of those stone Buddha palms doing maybe a Vitarka mudra.

Yeah, er, stone temple palm pilot.

arkizzle / Moderator

#10 – 6:14 AM June 7, 2009

Is this the end of BluTack?

kaka

#11 – 2:40 AM August 19, 2009

Nice sticky rock. It should look like one of those stone Buddha palms doing maybe a Vitarka mudra. Online Universities

kaka

#12 – 2:41 AM August 19, 2009

frames (4 after the talking stopped) in six minutes thru my cable modem / wifi / 700GHz G3 online Computer Science degree

kaka

#13 – 2:44 AM August 19, 2009

On Monday, iPhone 3.0 is released with a gecko-like exterior casing design. PhD Psychology

kaka

#14 – 2:45 AM August 19, 2009

rames (4 after the talking stopped) in six minutes thru my cable modem / wifi / 700GHz G3. Video formats that aren't either least- common- denominator, or adapt to their environment, um, i don't like so much on web pages, personally.
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kaka

#15 – 2:46 AM August 19, 2009

That's cool. Does it stick if you get it wet? human services degrees

blog85488

#16 – 3:12 PM August 31, 2009

This is a great device . Very nice design. Thanks. Vintage Vase || river cruise

blog85493

#17 – 2:44 AM September 5, 2009

It is amazing Plam. Very nice design and grip. Thank you for this video & post. fetal doppler

blog85493

#18 – 2:45 AM September 5, 2009

This is a excellent plam. very nice design & grip. Thank you. fetal doppler