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05.17.08

The $1 Touchpad Stylus

Lost your pointer? This cheap substitution works with a variety of touchscreen gadgets
By Dave Prochnow Posted 01.29.2008 at 7:15 pm 1 Comment

$1 Stylus:
This project keeps gettin’ better and better. We just revisited our Tablet PC project in the beginning of the new year and now we have another major advancement in this project. To get you up to speed, our last installment in this saga demonstrated how to make a viable boot disk for the discontinued Fujitsu Stylistic 1000 Tablet PC. Now we’ve unearthed a workable stylus for under one buck.

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Why You Want the Tablet PC

Don't fight it: Microsoft is onto something.
By Steve Morgenstern Posted 10.24.2002 at 1:28 pm 0 Comments

The idea is simple: Take a full-fledged Windows XP Professional notebook and add a pen-shape electromagnetic stylus, touchscreen display, and the software to make it all work. This is the Tablet PC in a nutshell. The first generation, with models from Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Viewsonic, and others, will begin hitting the market this month.

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