Name and summary say it all. The thing would look like a thimble, but would comfortably fit over either your right or left thumb. Somewhere near the tip but at a comfortable angle, there is a hard plastic stylus tip. You hold your PDA in the palm of your hand and use the thimble's tip as a stylus.

I "collect" personalized license plates while driving, and holding the steering wheel with my knees while I input grafitti is getting a bit hairy. One-handing it would be significantly safer.
-- bingo foo, May 09 2002

Finger Stylus http://www.expansys...2&asource=PALM_M100
Adjustable so that I imagine it will fit your thumb. [st3f, Oct 21 2002]

Finger Stylus http://www.stingerstylus.com/products/
Adjustable so that I imagine it will fit your thumb. [st3f, Oct 04 2004]

A Google Searcy https://www.google....16.1965.FWKiIeJBQzQ
The other links are bad, apparently, but the Idea does exist. [Vernon, Dec 07 2014]

Might I suggest that $20 would get you a dictation-type tape recorder, which would be safer yet?
-- mwburden, May 10 2002


To quote blissmiss:

you scare me....
-- yamahito, May 10 2002


Croissant for advancement of thumbs
-- thumbwax, May 10 2002


I thought this would be for playing records...which would have been impressive.
-- mcscotland, May 10 2002


Bum stylus for use in a seated position by the wriggling of the gluteus maximus.
-- pottedstu, May 10 2002


memorise and write it in a notepad at the next lights. I spotted a really good one the other week! hah.
-- po, May 10 2002


This would be great for navigating existing info like address book or calander. But... most good PDAs will have a "Transcriber" type feature, and writing with my thumb!... mmm... don't think so!
-- baldy, Oct 21 2002


Scribbling on a PDA while driving is such a bad idea that I hesitate to annotate. If I take out the driving part of it and just look at alternate ways of scribbling on PDAs, there is such a thing as a finger stylus (see link), and I see no reason why you can't stick this on the end of your thumb.
-- st3f, Oct 21 2002


that Finger Stylus is too large and bulky. It looks like it has a belt attached, what the heck? lol

I want a thimble sized cover for my index finger, maybe made of nylon so it can roll up to fit inside the pda.
-- neuroticus, Nov 15 2002


Heh.. I use this.

For various reasons (this being one of them), I keep the thumbnail on my right hand a little long. :)

BTW; You don't want to do this in a car anyways; it's still awkward for text entry. Awesome for navigation tho. Better to get a PDA clip so that it is secured to the dash of your car and get another stylus with a rope. Would serve you better for this task.
-- JackandJohn, Mar 04 2003


I love the idea, the pencil stylus is retarded. Laura,
-- Laura T, Oct 08 2003


The company in [st3f]'s link has discontinued that item, does that make this unbaked again? (WTAGIPBAN)
-- krelnik, Oct 08 2003


//...does that make this unbaked again?//
Just as much as turning off the oven turns bread into dough. :o)
Anyhow... [link updated]
-- st3f, Oct 08 2003


I hate it when I think of something cool, and it's already in there a generation ago :)
-- theircompetitor, Oct 19 2005


//I "collect" personalized license plates// I lived next to a fat man who drove a gold BMW 5 series with the plates "FAT GIT". Style.
-- wagster, Oct 19 2005



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