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TAD Customizable Finger Mod for Better Touchscreen ... Touching

The TAD gadget is designed to help fat-fingered folks (or just plain clumsy typists, like me) who have trouble with touchscreens or tiny buttons on cellphones. It's simply a plastic ring with a customizable "nubbin" for better contact than your fingertip offers— you can choose rounded for buttons and pointy for touchscreens. The makers claim better accuracy, reduced wear on keypads and even that it protects long nails. My wife's found that long nails are perfect for a Chumby touchscreen, but what the heck. Available in six colors and sizes up to 0.7-inches for $6. [Reghardware]

7:48 AM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Kit Eaton
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Zaxxon Q Blaque at 08:26 AM on 03/12/08
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But what about those big boys that are 0.9-inches? Will there be a Magnum version?
xanderbeedle at 08:29 AM on 03/12/08
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But will it work with the iPhone? I know that it uses a combination of sensors, not just touch, and anything that doesn't interact electromagnetically (or some such bollocks) with the layer under the screen won't do anything.
strider_mt2k at 08:31 AM on 03/12/08
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If you have to carry something with a touch screen you can manage to carry a multifunction pen with a stylus.

-and you can also dodge a ball.
flyboy at 08:48 AM on 03/12/08
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i hope the designers of these miniscule interfaces are reading this...article.
lextastic at 09:15 AM on 03/12/08
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yay! now i can play with my iphone using my penis..

oh wait. shouldnt have said that.
discounteggroll at 09:44 AM on 03/12/08
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is there one with a scope and crosshairs? I wanna be a sniper
maven2k at 10:24 AM on 03/12/08
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Is it just me or do some of these look vaguely like they could be in a dirty book store (not that I have been in many of those, heh)?
flyboy at 10:30 AM on 03/12/08
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@maven2k: its just u

nobody else thinks they look like butt plug no.3 'happy' size from happy joy industries
do they?
SigmundTheSeaMonster at 11:29 AM on 03/12/08
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@maven2k: hamsters get buttplugs?

Actually, those are based on steel door frame bumpers. I got a bag of them...from McMasterCarr. Um. I did!
ionerox at 11:50 AM on 03/12/08
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@xanderbeedle: Doubtful, rubber doesn't conduct electricity and the iPhone screen is a capacitive trouch screen. Bare skin only.
kostia at 05:34 PM on 03/12/08
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In about 1999 I had a wonderful silver "finger stylus" for my Palm III, from Concept Kitchen. I actually still have it, but it seems like I'm the only one. There's plastic ones called TrueTip still but that silver one hasn't been sold in ages. I never figured out why it didn't catch on.
halloweenjack at 05:04 PM on 03/13/08
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@kostia: You aren't the only one. I still have mine, but it's broken because the minor flexing from putting it on and taking it off (and putting it on my pinky as a sort of ring) weakened it. Always mean to get it fixed...