Tiny, Stick-On Joysticks for Touch Screen Gaming

Joystickers' Classic stick-on buttons for touch-screen phones. Photo: Joystickers

Check ?em out: nipples for the iPhone. Or, more accurately, ?removable gaming buttons for touch screens?.

We have seen a lot of clever products which add physical, moveable joysticks to touch-screen devices and make many games easier to play, but the Joystickers, as they are called, are about the simplest around. The nubbins stick straight onto the screen and transfer your movements via capacitive rubber.

They work like this: The outer cylinder and base sticks to the glass with a micro suction cup material. This houses the conductive rubber nubbin, which bobs around on an internal spring. Pull down with your thumb and the bottom edge contacts the screen, and so on.

Joystickers also makes a rather nice brush-shaped stylus and a regular pen-tip stylus, but these ?Classic? buttons are the coolest thing on offer, and they?re so tiny you could keep them in the little mystery pocket on your jeans. They?re also tiny enough to lose very quickly, but that?s really just your fault for being so careless.

Want some? You?ll need to pitch in over at Kickstarter, where a $40 pledge will buy you a pair of Classics.

Joystickers Classic [Kickstarter. Thanks, Anthony!]

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