If you see a stylus, they blew it.

dave shared some links said Tue, Nov 19th 2013 at 10:18am ET

There's a new stylus making the rounds today:
http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil
(With fancy features specifically for their awesome Paper app, but works as a normal stylus, too.)

I suppose it's partly because I don't particularly have good sketching skills, but I've yet to find a real need for a stylus. Even when drawing, it just seems easier to use my finger.

I've been tempted before (by the Cosmonaut) but haven't ever owned a stylus. What about you?

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petek said Tue, Nov 19th 2013 at 11:10am ET:

I own a stylus for one reason: I live in Chicago, and sometimes I need to use my iPhone with gloves, and the gloves I'm wearing might not work with the screen. That's it.

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- Also, because the company I work for gives out pens with a stylus on the other end.
  
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dave said Tue, Nov 19th 2013 at 11:20am ET:

Ah, that makes sense. I've tried the capacitative gloves, but they don't really work dependably (and seem to fall apart).

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nottobrag said Tue, Nov 19th 2013 at 11:30am ET:

I've used stylus when they were free but this would have been nice when I was in my design classes. Being able to sketch and render my projects on a tablet I think could have been more useful. Though I think the reason they haven't been so popular in the past could be because of their designs. This one is really interesting looking and seems to be easier to manipulate different depths.

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snapster said Tue, Nov 19th 2013 at 11:50am ET:

I wonder how a population of people would fall into line on a ranked ability-to-sketch. I'm thinking you'd need to be in a top segment of that skill to have much fun with a stylus. From a sour-grapes perspective I'm going to say that's 2% of people or something very low. Then I feel better having to ignore how cool this stylus looks as a gadget.

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moondrake said Tue, Nov 19th 2013 at 12:04pm ET:

I like to sketch but I do it on paper with a pencil. I have several styluses, I mostly bought them for my friend who has trouble hitting the smaller targets on the tablet. I don't see how guys with big hands manage to access icons on little phone screens.

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nottobrag said Tue, Nov 19th 2013 at 12:09pm ET:

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- This is a person who buys a stylus for drawing/sketching/rendering..
  
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Necoras said Wed, Nov 20th 2013 at 2:27pm ET:

I've yet to find a way to input information into a tablet or phone as quickly as I can type on a keyboard. I'd love to have handwriting recognition software which is accurate enough for business use. That would turn my tablet from a netflix machine into a valuable work tool. Aside from drawing it's the only real reason I could see using a stylus either.

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JerseyFrank said Wed, Nov 20th 2013 at 2:41pm ET:

I don't like the fat capacitive stylii that are commonly available. I can't scratch the cerumen from my ear with it like I can with chopsticks.

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