After a long time spent ridiculing styluses for capacitive touch-screens, I came around. For drawing and note-taking on a big tablet screen, they have a finger beaten, erm, hands-down. I settled on the chunky Alupen, but if you already have a favorite ball-pen, why not just opt for an adapter tip?
These stainless steel and rubber tips come sized to fit over Sharpies, Bics and Pilot Fineliners. The inventor, Don Lehman, was struck with the idea one day as he was idly sliding the cap on and off his Sharpie. He describes the historic moment in his Kickstarter pitch:
I was playing with the cap of a Sharpie, taking it on and off and on and off, just fixating on this cap when it suddenly hit me, ?Uh, a cap would be a good stylus.? It was not unlike that scene in 2001 where the apes suddenly realize bones could be used as weapons after they touch the monolith. I believe that makes me the ape. After that I was off to the races.
Sure, it?s not quite in the same league as Doc Brown?s Flux Capacitor, but it?s close. The MORE/REAL Stylus Cap, as it is known, will cost $20 apiece when it makes it into production. The Kickstarter project has already raised its $15,000 goal, but you can still pitch in if you want to get one early, or if you want one of the limited edition brass caps ($25).
MORE/REAL Stylus Cap [Kickstarter]
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