Stylus
noun
A tool used to write, draw, or select items on a touchscreen.
She used her stylus to draw on her tablet.
Often appears as...
- use a stylus
- digital stylus
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A sharp pointed tool used for engraving or writing on hard materials in ancient times.
The ancient Romans used a stylus made of metal for writing on wax tablets.
Often appears as...
- roman stylus
- metal stylus
Usage tips
Historical
noun
A needle-like part in devices like phonographs or record players to read information.
The stylus on my record player needs replacing.
Often appears as...
- phonograph stylus
- record player stylus
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A tool used to write, draw, or select items on a touchscreen.
She used her stylus to draw on her tablet.
Often appears as...
- use a stylus
- digital stylus
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A sharp pointed tool used for engraving or writing on hard materials in ancient times.
The ancient Romans used a stylus made of metal for writing on wax tablets.
Often appears as...
- roman stylus
- metal stylus
Usage tips
Historical
noun
A needle-like part in devices like phonographs or record players to read information.
The stylus on my record player needs replacing.
Often appears as...
- phonograph stylus
- record player stylus
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Touchscreen Usage
Often paired with devices like tablets and smartphones to interact without fingerprints on the screen.
Remember to bring a stylus for the drawing app on your iPad.
Pro Tip 2/3Precision Tool
A stylus provides more accuracy compared to using fingers, especially for drawing or writing.
Graphic designers often use a stylus for detailed work.
Pro Tip 3/3Special Features
Some styluses include buttons or pressure sensitivity for additional digital functionalities.
Her stylus has a button to right-click on screen items.
Pro Tip 1/3Touchscreen Usage
Often paired with devices like tablets and smartphones to interact without fingerprints on the screen.
Remember to bring a stylus for the drawing app on your iPad.
Pro Tip 2/3Precision Tool
A stylus provides more accuracy compared to using fingers, especially for drawing or writing.
Graphic designers often use a stylus for detailed work.
Pro Tip 3/3Special Features
Some styluses include buttons or pressure sensitivity for additional digital functionalities.
Her stylus has a button to right-click on screen items.
Pro Tip 1/3Touchscreen Usage
Often paired with devices like tablets and smartphones to interact without fingerprints on the screen.
Remember to bring a stylus for the drawing app on your iPad.
Pro Tip 2/3Precision Tool
A stylus provides more accuracy compared to using fingers, especially for drawing or writing.
Graphic designers often use a stylus for detailed work.
Pro Tip 3/3Special Features
Some styluses include buttons or pressure sensitivity for additional digital functionalities.
Her stylus has a button to right-click on screen items.
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Video examples
Ron Eglash: The fractals...
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,
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Haptography: Digitizing...
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
Video examples
Inside a cartoonist's...
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.
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The evolution of the...
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
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The Ancient Orchestra PIPE...
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
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David Pogue: Simplicity...
'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.
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Who was the world's...
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.
Video examples
How we plan to beat...
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
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Who Will Win the Geo...
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
Video examples
Nicholas Negroponte: 5...
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.
Video examples
Ron Eglash: The fractals...
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,
Video examples
Haptography: Digitizing...
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
Video examples
Inside a cartoonist's...
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.
Video examples
The evolution of the...
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
Video examples
The Ancient Orchestra PIPE...
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
Video examples
David Pogue: Simplicity...
'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.
Video examples
Who was the world's...
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.
Video examples
How we plan to beat...
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
Video examples
Who Will Win the Geo...
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
Video examples
Nicholas Negroponte: 5...
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.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Steve Jobs
American Businessman
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Quote examples
Steve Jobs
American Businessman
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Example 1 of 1
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