How To Make A Free Capacitive Stylus

[legolaughter2986]

lol wow so ive been looking for how to's on styalists and all i needed to use was those screens xD good thing i saved mine from my 2broken phones and a psp

[AshyerMC]

my right ear?

[bd9598]

Wrap it around wood or a pencil/pen which they already market as a stylus! cool thanks

[zelikki]

Try to use that with gloves. Your stylus just transfers the electricity from your hand to the screen.. I think so. I tried this with a battery, and it worked.. until I tried it with a glove.

[TheTechnoland]

it's actually made from a pen!  watch?v=nTeFWfmXZX4

[aayush10001]

it doesnt create its own electricity.and for all those idiots who think that its a plastic,think again,have a multimeter?test it out.they have a thin layer of conductor.if thatr conductor wouldnt have been there,static electricity could get stored in that plastic...

[winpaduser]

thanks,i will try it later

[ouychiat]

It really works. Just tried it. I was thinking about buying a stylus for my ipod. After seeing this video i tried it from the static plastic I got from fixing a friend's pc. THANKS pocketnowvideo.

[cre8ive65]

TAPE LITTLE PIECES TO THE GLOVES! :D

[luv2theworld]

Great! But I threw mine away '~'

[Thealoc505]

Yea like I have anti static film with me when I go snowboarding -.-

[omgdisdude]

lol 4:20 PM

[mrfunnypox]

It's not conducting it own electricity your finger is it's just when you touch it it sends electric waves through the plastic

[VePe00]

Thx for the tip! I made my own pen with a piece of this plasting taped on a common pen. A little advice: u MUST have a bigger (approx 5 square mm)connecting surface, u cant make a sharp thing otherwise it wont work.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Big question here. My friend has long finger nails. Would it be easy to cut a strip of this to fit at the end of a nail and will it work that way?

[XQbit]

It absorbs electricity, it doesn't make it's own. :D Your finger does the same.

[mrlevyk]

Did anybody notice how he got back at 4:20 lol STONER

[fdespotovski]

Or you can take a metal pen and stick a sponge on the top.

[if5tatement]

@fdespotovski erm no, no you can't.

[fdespotovski]

@if5tatement well,watch my tutorial.

[x1expert1x]

LOL SAME PHONE!!!

[Macwanscooter]

Woo 420

[craftystringgirl]

yeah like you will have anti static film when going skiing or snowboarding

[JerkKingChris]

"JUST WHIP OUT A PIECE OF ANTI STATIC FILM" YEH BECUZ WHEN I LEAVE I MAKE SURE I BRING THAT WITH ME

[JoshR81]

Best capacitive stylus i've seen, is the Nokia SU-39.

Looks the business!

Not sure if many people would want to save a few bucks and use a flimsy piece of plastic instead. However, if i could cut a very small portion (a dot) of the plastic and stick in on the end of a resisitive stylus, or toothpick or pen, then maybe your discovery has some merit.

[Somethingproductable]

Would dryer sheets do the same?

[NissanNismo370Z]

pssst. the ten idea at the end.. isnt that why they have resistive screens? XD jk

[MrEntrepreneur24]

There's only one stylus to have: Put in Google = Stylus-R-Us

[ratclifferob]

the best thing to use is ciggerette silver or gold paper from your box, or soft mints blue paper or chewing gum silver paper. they are very good. just tape it round a pen.

[Swiffers]

@ratclifferob I tried both silver and gold paper from my smokes and they didn't work. :(

[shipo234]

will it work for iphone?

[skateipath]

nice it took you 15 minutes to make a 2 minutes video! SUCCESS

4:20!!!!!

[justinb93]

This doesn't work with the anti-static plastic casing that most computer memory comes in. I guess this only works with the anti-static film.

[Dana11377]

its not free actually. did the materials fall out of the sky? no

[Heizalo]

May i ask how did u get the win 7 mobile ? im stuck with the 6.5

[pawssdc]

if w make a screen protector out of ant-static film we are simply going back to the same concept as a resistive touch screen and will inevitably have the same problems

[Roblizz]

omg macgyver you saved me again xD!

[SofaKingAwesome23]

do i have anti whatever sheets lying around my house? if so where

[ratclifferob]

@SofaKingAwesome23 the best thing to use is ciggerette silver or gold paper from your box, or soft mints blue paper or chewing gum silver paper. they are very good. just tape it round a pen. it works great for my xperia x8.

[carsenk]

lol at 0:49...4:20 FTW :)

[zeester0101]

boy he says antistatic film a lot... haha

[for1234hed]

so this hd2 windows7!!!!???

[0Patroy0]

@for1234hed no

[girlsdrinkfeck]

thats winmo 6.5 without htc sense loaded

[ngeeseng]

nice. nicer if somehow hd2 can recognise handwriting. any ideas for that?

[studioamk]

Nice tip

[scienceguy75]

420

[jamie343434]

420

[dkpat23]

aluminum foil works also

[InfoTransmission]

Ok thats fine but to be fair i really do not have anti-static bags just in my pocket during winter time to use my touch screen :P

[babybungbu]

Which type of hardware that anti - static protective film is usually used on?

[salmonsushi]

Well why don't you just get a resistive touch screen. Mutli-touch also work on it. Youtube it

[bestelitegymnastever]

eww please tell me that is not the final rom for the tmobile htc hd2 dayview

[mrcraggle]

@bestelitegymnastever

He's just using the standard Winmo 6.5. The tmobile HD2 will have an updated Sense 2.5

[MySpaceKing713]

Would be pretty useful if you dissected a pen and put the film straight down the middle.

[evilfazz]

Been doing something similar for a while myself on my HTC HD2. Using even pieces work applied to various items, like gloves and on the opposite side of the nib of a normal pen.

The HTC HD2 unlike most other fruity brands, is a (high resolution) glass screen and doesn't scratch easily or at all. Using all sorts of random pointing objects with an antistatic layer works and works well.

HTC HD2 (with a tasty cooked WM6.5 ROM from XDA Dev) is the best phone since it's release last year. \[^_^]/

[shoelace510]

haha Awesome...thanks!

[banstaman]

Sure beats using a sausage.

[hotty198]

hahahahah

[hotty198]

i use my man meat

[jrburdet]

Are you sure you're not, by holding the film with your hand, transferring the minute amount of electricity the screen needs to respond from your hand, through the film, to the screen? Even when you used the pen, you held it with your electrified hand. Just a thought, feel free to prove me wrong :-p

[jrburdet]

Oh, and this bit of hard headed skepticism is in response to the claim that the film is creating the electricity.

[pocketnowvideo]

Try it yourself. It really works. Trust me I played around awhile before I posted it. And the pen is plastic, a non-conductive material.

[arialk]

@pocketnowvideo

plz go back to high school and study physics

[Cad1Denmark]

@pocketnowvideo

You are wrong.. this kind of plastic is conductive, that's why it works, it simply transfers the electricity from your hand to the screen.

So it will not work with gloves on!

BTW... if that plastic really generated electricity by it self and out of nothing, why would we need power plants?!

Nice one for showing your idea though. :-)

[jpodius]

@pocketnowvideo Yes, but in the video you are holding the film with your left hand while you use the plastic pen to scroll with your right hand... i.e. you still have a conductive path from your left hand to the screen.

[rchrdcrg]

@jrburdet You're totally right, it's passing on the conductivity of the user's hand.

[tehkseven]

That's pretty damn cool!

[ACPlayer619909]

What phone is this?

[jersthecool]

The HTC HD2

[m4sta2k]

What is the theme used here? Never seen it before, looks nice. Thanks for nice videos !

[frenchmen77]

@m4sta2k

theme? you mean the interface (called Titanium) or the background image?

[MrToad321]

will it scratch the screen? cause the edges look sharp?

[pocketnowvideo]

Nope, it is softer than a regular stylus also try out your own ideas using the film and post on Pocketnow with your findings.

[m4sta2k]

@MrToad321

No, Hd2 can handle it , its glass !

[FunnyGlitcher]

I once read sausages also work as a capacitive stylus, but I still haven't tried since I don't have a device that has a capacitive screen, but on a serious note you would look RIDICULOUS pointing a sausage at your phone.