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_M100Adjustable 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.FWKiIeJBQzQThe 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 random, halfbakery