The Snack Sausage as iPhone/Touchscreen Stylus [Clever Uses]

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15 Feb 2010

We’ve shown you how to make any pair of gloves work with a touchscreen so you can operate your touch device in the cold without taking off your mitts, but if you prefer a stylus, consider some snack sausage.

Blogger extraordinaire Jason Kottke highlights a trend in South Korea in which iPhone users are using snack sausages as meat styli:

It seems that the sausages, electrostatically speaking, are close approximations of the human finger. Here’s the not-entirely-useful English translation of a Korean news article about the soaring sausage sales.

Check out the video above for the sausage-as-stylus in action. Strange, sure, but hey—you can’t argue with results.



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4 Responses to The Snack Sausage as iPhone/Touchscreen Stylus [Clever Uses]

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linda bug

March 5th, 2010 at 4:10 pm

It should be okay as long as you cook it tonight as long as it isn't warm to the touch before you cook it !! good luck & my husband would love to be there to help you eat it !!!

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Jonathan M

March 12th, 2010 at 5:55 pm

when was the last time it was waxed??

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Kevin G

March 19th, 2010 at 11:40 pm

until or unless you have high cholesterol

buy the pork kind and eat it, limit how much maybe

I don't want to get old

20 more years of bacon and beer, then I can jump

better than 20 years of no bacon and no beer , and jumping in 10 years or so

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Charles E

March 22nd, 2010 at 4:05 am

korean.com!

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