Steve Jobs

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

American Businessman

Often paired with devices like tablets and smartphones to interact without fingerprints on the screen.

Touchscreen Usage

A stylus provides more accuracy compared to using fingers, especially for drawing or writing.

Precision Tool

Some styluses include buttons or pressure sensitivity for additional digital functionalities.

Special Features

Used in ancient times, indicates historical context or actions when mentioned.

Historical Instrument

Understanding its historical use highlights the evolution of writing instruments.

Writing Evolution

Ancient styluses were not limited to metal; they were also made from bone, ivory, or wood.

Not Just Metal

Essential part of vinyl record players, it affects sound quality when reading grooves.

Music Playback

Needle-like styluses are delicate and need careful handling to prevent damage.

Care Required

They can wear out over time and need replacing for consistent sound quality.

Replacement Need

 you can never lift your stylus from the surface and you can never go over the same line twice. But they do it recursively, and they do it with an age-grade system, so the little kids learn this one, and then the older kids learn this one, then the next age-grade initiation, you learn this one. And with each iteration of that algorithm,

Ron Eglash: The fractals...

 Here's ten seconds of data. You can see how the vibrations get larger and smaller, depending on how you move. And we make a mathematical model of those relationships and program them into a tablet computer so that when you take the stylus and go and touch the screen, that voice-coil actuator in the white bracket

Haptography: Digitizing...

 Some may draw directly on a tablet with a stylus. The choices at this stage of creation work in tandem with the idea, and often when the final caption is added, it gets adjusted yet again. But, little is left to chance, except, perhaps, some of the watercolor.

Inside a cartoonist's...

 form technology influences form 3,000 years ago Sumerians in Mesopotamia rewriting kun eya form one of the earliest known writing systems by pressing a reed stylus into soft clay into these different configurations of straight lines and wedges because those

The evolution of the...

 things were just squiggles on smoky paper it loops back on itself you know sometimes the stylus would flick off the page sheet music it is not but there's this team a group of scientists and historians they call themselves first sounds and they figured

The Ancient Orchestra PIPE...

 'If any task on the Palm Pilot takes more than three taps of the stylus, it's too long, and it has to be redesigned.' So I'm the tap counter." So, I'm going to show you an example of a company that does not have a tap counter. This is Microsoft Word.

David Pogue: Simplicity...

 was written with a reed stylus pressed into soft clay to make wedge-shaped marks. But until Enheduanna, this writing mostly took the form of record keeping and transcription, rather than original works attributable to individual writers.

Who was the world's...

 immediate Abasi are the world's most devastating insect pests they have a global distribution they look alike they transmit plant viruses and become insecticide resistant very quickly the white flies use their stylus or modified

How we plan to beat...

 national champion so watch closely because every question could be the winning question you're going to need your stylus for this final round I will read each question twice so listen carefully before answering you'll then

Who Will Win the Geo...

 It's certainly a very important medium for input, and a lot of people think that fingers are a very low-resolution sort of stylus for inputting to a display.

Stylus