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

[L.W. Brown]

I have one of those foam stylii & I loathe it! :( The iPhone is very  
slow to respond to it, and a thick finger is still a lot easier to get  
accuracy with.

A useful trick that works with iPhones is to use the negative end of  
an old, used up AAA or AAAA battery - a bit awkward to get the flat  
end fully touching the screen, but it works & is much cheaper with  
gloves than buying those special conductive or battery-powered models.

 From my experiments with AAA batteries and alumin'm, copper & steel  
wires, a pointy tip just won't get enough contact with the screen to  
make it react.

Sent from my ¡Brick...
;-]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:38, reilly001os at aol.com wrote:

> 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
> ------Original Message------
> From: Jon Glass
>
> 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?
>>
>>
> 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.