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unusual facts about stylus



101-in-1 Explosive Megamix

Players can use the stylus and touch screen to test their reflexes in action mini-games like racing and skydiving, take on sporting events such as basketball, curling, and archery, strategize with tank and space combat games, or play match three, Sudoku, and jigsaw puzzles.

Alexandra Slate

Stylus stated the record achieved poor sales in the absence of a concentrated PR push, and added that had it been released a year later it may have been more successful, as by that time Hollywood Records were promoting most of their new artists on Radio Disney.

Dragon Ball: Origins

The game allows players, with stylus and touchscreen, to take on the role of series protagonist Son Goku who must journey with Bulma to find the seven mythical Dragon Balls, and later train under the martial arts teacher Master Roshi to compete in the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai.

Eco Creatures: Save the Forest

Eco Creatures uses the stylus to control three types of small rodents; a Squirrel called Ecolis, a Flying squirrel called Ecomon, and a Beaver called Ecoby.

Education in ancient Tamil country

This is in line with the Manusmrti injunction against teaching to lower castes, whereby if a Brahmin were to teach a Shudra, he would fall into Asamvrita, or hell; conversely, if a Shudra were to hear or utter the Veda, the penalty was that molten lead was poured into his ears and a hot stylus be thrust in his tongue, respectively.

Highgrove Florilegium

Each sheet of paper was hand marbled separately using the traditional technique of sprinkling the colours onto a viscous fluid prepared from Carragheen moss and manipulating a pattern in the paint using a stylus.

Laser turntable

A laser turntable (or optical turntable) is a phonograph that plays LPs (and other gramophone records) using laser beams as the pickup – the way a compact disc player plays CDs – instead of using a stylus as in conventional turntables.

Luca Penni

Battle in the palace of Priam, pen and brown ink, retints in white gouache, traces of stylus, brown wash paper, Paris, Musée du Louvre, département des Arts graphiques, inv.

Namco Museum DS

The collection also features virtual DIP switch modes where the switches can be turned on and off using the stylus, although not nearly as many of the original switches are on it.

Pantograph

Edison, Bettini, Leon Douglass and others solved this problem (partly) by mechanically linking a cutting stylus and a playback stylus together and copying the "hill-and-dale" grooves of the cylinder mechanically.

Pen computing

1888: U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray on electrical stylus device for capturing handwriting.

Selfridges

Since 2002, the windows have been photographed by London photographer Andrew Meredith and published in magazines such as Vogue, Dwell, Icon, Frame Magazine, Creative Review, Hungarian Stylus Magazine, Design Week, Harper's Bazaar, New York Times, WGSN and much more including world wide press, journals, blogs and published books all over the world.

Stylus Music School

The Stylus College of Music and Sound Technology is an accredited career training institution dedicated to music production, Sound Design and music business management and is located in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

Stylus Studio

December 4, 2008 Stylus Studio 2009 added support for XQuery Update Facility 1.0.

Writing implement

Another writing implement employed by a smaller population, is the stylus used by blind users in conjunction with the slate for punching out the dots in Braille.


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