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You love to sketch. Pen on paper, stylus on tablet, it doesn't matter. But what does matter, is that Scott Wilson understands that insatiable need to draw. Scott Wilson, the man behind the wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for the TikTok/LunaTik watchband for the iPod nano, just launched a great followup to the TikTok: a dual function rollerball pen and digital stylus aptly named the LunaTik Touch Pen. With a click of a button, you can toggle between paper and tablet with a single pen.
The Lunatik Alloy Touch Pen is manufactured from premium materials and features an aircraft grade aluminum barrel, a die cast clip that is hard coated with PVD plating, high grade silicone rubber grip as well as our patent-pending dual mode tip that allows you to seamlessly use the LunaTik Pen with any touch screen. Our custom engineered materials are designed to meet our demanding specifications for touch screen responsiveness and flow. And on paper, the Touch Pen uses precision Japanese rollerball components for a fluid inking experience.
This is a great solution for the way we work today and Wilson hopes that the LunaTik Touch Pen will be an integrated tool to move us into a more seamlessly workflow. This week marks the one-year anniversary of Wilson's impressive funding run for the TikTok! We learn from Scott's project video that the MINIMAL team will be launching a series of products over the next year...we'll be on the lookout for new ideas under the LunaTik brand. Watch the project video after the jump:
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I like that Minimal is making a designer's tool. Just like the LunaTik bands drove sales of Nanos, this could drive sales of iPads, especially if the internal pen mechanics are the high quality Japanese ball points.
Succulent product, count me in, as much for the functional duality as for the hunger to democratically support great innovation. One vote, two pens.
funny this post happens the same day as Studio Neat releases their 'Cosmonaut'
Is this fundamentally different from the stylus/rollerball multipens that were developed around 2003 for use with PDAs?
Even if it isn't, this is the most elegant way of doing it so far.
Maybe it's just me but i tend to sketch with my pen at a significant angle to the screen, nearly every capacitive stylus i have used fails to reliably register the stylus when used at an angle, this pen looks no different