If you have ever looked down at that sleek iPhone or iPod Touch in your pocket and thought “wow, this thing needs a stylus”, then Brightonnet’s new BI-IPEN might just be for you. As capacitive touch devices, the iPhone and iPod Touch can not use a stylus. They need to feel the small electric charge from your fingertip, which plastic or metal can not traditionally provide.
The BI-IPEN is solving that using a special type of conductive resin on the bottom of the pen. The device will allow you to touch and drag, but unless you are going to set the device down and use two of these bad boys, then no multi touch. It is available in both black and silver, but I could not find a price for the device, or if it is even shipping yet.
[Via Akihabara News]
Now you can order from this web site.
http://bridge-well.com/store/
Masao Arai, I went to that website you listed to by the “brigtonnet bi-ipen” and it was not available. Meaning when I did a search I could not even find it on their site. Where can I actually find and buy one of these. I see it all over the net. It is shown a talked about all over, but I cannot find it for sale anyware, especially on the site you listed. Please help. I would greatly appreciate any you can offer. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Jennifer
The pen is for sale at Strapya World, it’s a Japan-based store, I’ve ordered cellphone accessories from them lots of times, no problems shipping to the U.S.
http://www.strapya-world.com/categories/12_646_4581.html
They have the pen in black or silver as of this posting :)