In the mobile industry, all things go in waves: things are cool, get forgotten about and come back again. Apple’s iPhone made stylusless touchscreens cool – come the winter, the coolness stops.

The image below hits us via kottke.org:
sausage stylus Why styli are a good thing

According to him, more and more South Koreans now use sausages to allow them to tap on their iPhone’s screen without undressing their gloves. Insane, but true…

The point is this: a stylus is better in various usage scenarios ranging from hitting small targets to on-screen writing and note taking. After all, humans don’t dip their fingers into ink when it comes to writing…

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4 Responses to “Why styli are a good thing”

  1. What does a wrapped sausage have over a gloved finger for this to work? Apple could sell sausage-like glove finger tips. Then you could have multi-touch too! (but more sausage marks ;)

  2. Hi,
    IMHO, the sausage has to be unpacked in order to be usable!

    All the best
    Tam Hanna

  3. Tam wrote:

    > IMHO, the sausage has to be unpacked in order
    > to be usable!

    It seems the picture shows the opposite.

  4. Hi Luc,
    I think that the users just unwrap the sausage halfway…

    Tam

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