ChopStyle

I was perusing Samsung's offering of accessories for my Galaxy Tab today, and came across a conductive stylus designed to work on capacitive touchscreens. Specifically, it says it allows for smudge free use of the touchscreen. My first thought when I read that was wait a sec, what about functions which require multitouch, such as rotating and tilting the view in Google Maps or copy/ paste, or image editing?

For such functions, one could theoretically use 2 such styluses (stylii?) chopstick-style, which would look really cool in addition to allowing greater precision than fingers for things like copy/paste, but those things are bulky, designed to mimic the shape and size of a "premium writing instrument". This design makes them unwieldy and awkward to use in such a fashion.

So my proposal is a conductive stylus which is long and slender, like a chopstick, and attached at the end with either a hinge (springloaded or not) or short lanyard to an identical mate. These ChopStyles would be ideal for use on a touchscreen device, because they allow more precision and work for multitouch functions, as well as keeping the screen smudge free.

Oh yeah, and it would look really cool.