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  • noun Irregular plural form of stylus.

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  • Stantum Offering Demo, Evaluation & Development Board Based on Its Patented Resistive Multi-Touch Technology SAN DIEGO, September 23, 2008 - At the SID Mobile Displays Conference today, Stantum Technologies (www. stantum.com), a pioneer developer of multi-touch sensing technology, today introduced a demo, evaluation and development board based on its patented PMatrix ™ resistive multi-touch technology, which lets users simultaneously move an unlimited number of fingers, nails or utensils (such as styli) on a screen.

    Embedded Computing Design 2008

  • Even on the iPad, which wasn't designed for a stylus, third-party styli have become quietly popular, but Samsung has taken the idea much further.

    Mobile Device That's Better for a Jotter Than a Talker Walter S. Mossberg 2012

  • Cylinders were transferred using a French-made Archeophone, using custom Shure styli from Expert Stylus in England.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Cylinders were transferred using a French-made Archeophone, using custom Shure styli from Expert Stylus in England.

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project 2008

  • The big problem for tablet PCs for me besides weak screen hinges and losing styli.. ugh was that operating systems they run have been designed and tweaked over decades for point-and-click with a keyboard and mouse and just don't work well when shoehorned to fit a finite-point tap-and-draw interface.

    whyPad? James F. McGrath 2010

  • I know there were chad problems in Florida in 2000, but wouldn't better maintenance on the punch card apparatus - sharper styli, chad clearing from the holes and ballot verification have been a cheaper and simpler solution?

    A Call For Dumping Diebold Machines — From A Republican 2009

  • August 30, 2008 at 12:02 am u likz mai decoratin styli?

    Meh werk is dun here. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Comes with 2 cute mini drumstick stylus styli? stylee? styluses? too.

    Taiko No Tatsujin DS tenshi_a 2007

  • Comes with 2 cute mini drumstick stylus styli? stylee? styluses? too.

    Archive 2007-07-01 tenshi_a 2007

  • Oh, how the Simpson's writing staff can truculently castigate styli of pretentiousness when necessitated by buffoonery...

    Succulent truculence. Ann Althouse 2007

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