[NTLK] Fwd: Apple Confirms January 27th Media Event

[reilly001os at aol.com]

I have a pretty small stylus for my touch (was a bonus that came with screen protectors) it's smaller around then your average pen and uses some kind of conductive foam on the end, still not pointed though. Maybe that's the big deal, they figured out how to make multi touch work with a more normal stylus and thus did the tablet finally!

 Joe Reilly
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Goodwin, Greg P. <GoodwinG at aafes.com> wrote:
> Couldn't you use a stylus if you REALLY wanted to, or is more keyed to a human finger?
>
> Reason I ask, if they don't have a stylus, couldn't a person just find one out there for other tablet devices (a Newton stylus even) and use it on this new device?
>
All the stylii <g> I've seen for the iPhone are fat on the end like a
finger. Pointed stylii are out, because the touch is
capacitive-based--in other words, requiring an electrical charge based
on your skin. It needs a surface area to work with, I guess. I can't
see this working like this. I _have_ seen a tablet that uses a special
stylus that the touch screen recognizes, and works like a normal
stylus, but I somehow don't see Apple going the stylus route. It's too
"twentieth-century" and confusing to have two ways of interacting. For
the same reason, I don't see this guy working with a BlueTooth
keyboard, sadly.


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