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Styluses are pens that work on computers.

They come in all different shapes and sizes, some that stick
to your computer like magnet and others run away from you the first chance they get.

There is one particular stylus, the one that fits comfortably in your computer. There is a battery tail
end of the pen to charge, as well as connecting with the computer, with a dent at the end to easily take
out. There are 2 buttons on the side of the pen, the default being the button closest to the tip of the
pen used to rub out pen/inking in colouring and Office apps, and the other as a “right click”, mostly
used as a lasso. Most of the pen is made out of moulded plastic, however, apart from the battery
charger, the only other, and most important part of the stylus is the nib.

The nib of the stylus works similar to a mouse, as well as a finger on capacitive touch screens. The
screen of the computer is made out of glass, which is an insulating material, meaning it cannot carry
electrical currents. Most of the time, the surface of the screen is covered in indium tin oxide, which is
an electrically conducting material. Grid like wires that form small points form small capacitors that,
when something that is electrically conducted touches it, such as a finger, or in this case, a stylus,
touches it, the electric field changes, and alerts the small voltages which sends signals to the
computer, which then works out the position of the electrically conducted material that touches it.

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