14 DAY TRIAL // Capacitive touchscreens need capacitive styluses to work, if you don't want to use your fingers or need greater accuracy than they can provide, maybe to draw very thin lines. The Dragonbite Stylus will make it so that you can use any pen that way.
Well, any BIC Cristal pen anyway. The ones that are usually used to write notes at school, or during tests.
BIC Cristal pens, and ball-point pens in general, have been almost completely replaced fountain pens, and now it seems that touchscreen styluses could suffer the same.
All because Dinos Costanti and Vangelis Hadjiloizou invented the Dragonbite Stylus, a cap, of sorts, which turns those pens into touchscreen styluses.
The caps are made so that you feel as though you're holding a normal pen in your hand. The familiarity is bound to make you more comfortable, and your drawings more accurate.
Because that's what the Dragonbite was invented for: to let you draw on a touch-based app as easily and as well as you would on paper.
Solid Concepts printed the thing, from the same sort of SLS carbon-filled nylon as the one used in making cars and aircraft.
The inventors have created Lab02 in order to market the device, and it is meant as a step toward more intuitive human-machine interaction.
It's not totally clear how the stylus works with gesture controls. Maybe you'll be able to hold down the tip and move the virtual “sheet” of paper around, drawing circles and the like, instead of moving the pen itself.
In any event, if you're the type of person that carries a pen with them at all time, you might find some good use for the Dragonbite, especially if you also own one of those smartphones with special note-tacking apps and handwriting recognition. The same if you have a tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Note series comes to mind.
You'll have to pledge €18.65 / $25.27 to get one Dragonbite Stylus, but if you’re a reseller, you can order 20-49 for a 10% discount, or 50 (or more for) 15% off the total price. If your own a miscellanea store, this could be right up your alley, though you'll probably have to do some heavy-duty advertising to actually let people know you have such things in stock. And probably explain to potential customers all about what they do.
As far as ease of use goes, it is a small step, but the item is small enough to become ubiquitous in short order.
