Before the iPhone 6, the reason Apple decided on 3.5-inch and then 4-inch displays was to allow for the entire screen to be easily within reach of your thumb when using your iPhone with a single hand. Now that the iPhone 6 starts at a massive 4.7 inches, you’re going to need a bigger thumb.
Like this one! Thanko, a Tokyo-based maker of electronic crapcessories, has just delivered unto the market its magnum opus: a soft, silicon-based “finger stylus” that extends your thumb up to 0.6 inches, helping you reach the far corners of your iPhone 6 Plus with one hand.
Here’s the finger stylus in action:
It’s just $14. Yeah, that’s probably more than this product is worth, but hey, if you’re looking for other ideas on what to do with your giant thumbs, you’re only a Tom Robbins novel away from some innovative new ideas.
Source: Thanko
Via: Design Taxi
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
3 responses to “Buy yourself a bigger thumb for using your iPhone 6 Plus one-handed”
You would think in the promo video they would at least try and make it look like it works well. That thing looks terrible to use.
The idea is great. I think a couple of iterations this may become very easy to use!
Really love the idea. The Japanese are so cool with such clever ideas!