can you buy styluses for use on your laptop touch pad?

[joko]

because you can only use it with your fingertips, a normal stylus wont work...but are there any available that mimic the finger tip, so you can use it like a pen?

i have an old graphics pad, but i suspect it wont work on my new OS...cant find the leads to check so thought id ask this

also what is it that make the fingertips work?

heat? softness? ...

cheers

[NazNomad]

Touchpads operate in one of several ways, including capacitive sensing and conductance sensing. The most common technology used as of 2010[update] entails sensing the capacitative virtual ground effect of a finger, or the capacitance between sensors. Capacitance-based touchpads will not sense the tip of a pencil or other similar implement. Gloved fingers may also be problematic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchpad

[woofgang]

John lewis sell gloves that are said to work....not quite sure why though.

[NazNomad]

What graphics tablet do you have? ... and what OS?

[Fitzer]

Just search for iPad stylus on Amazon, there are loads

[Fitzer]

Darn, read that as iPad not touchpad.

[joko]

thanks all...
yes woofgang theyre what made me think that the same stuff in the glove fingers may be available in a pen form to use directly on your laptop touchpad...

naz its a mouse tablet 604 ...i cant find one of the leads to check if it will work with win7

[NazNomad]

The tablet should (so I've just read) be automatically recognised in WinXP. I don't see why it shouldn't work with Win7.

[joko]

thanks naz, ill get looking for that lead