Hasta La Gadget!

I remain resolute in my continued ridicule of the Pogo Stylus for the iPhone. The entire point of the iPhone is that you don’t need to pull out a little metal pencil to tap the screen. You’re supposed to do it with your fingers. Still, if you insist on it, for instance if you have the cute sugar-cube-shaped Square credit-card reader and want to let people sign their names on screen, then this companion case will at least stop you losing the pen.

The case, from Pogo maker Ten One Design, is called the Tango. It is also the “world’s first case specifically made for the Pogo Stylus”, and we’d guess it will also be the last, this being a somewhat niche category. The case is leather on the outside, micro-suede on the inside and flips open to let you quickly doodle on the screen without removing the iPhone 3GS from within. The stylus sits in a clip on the side.

Compared to the stylus itself, which goes for a rather optimistic $15, the case is reasonable at $40, especially as it comes with its own Pogo stick.

Somewhat hypocritically I was shopping online for a Pogo just this morning. A stylus for the iPhone may be dumb, but a stylus to use with iPad drawing and painting apps? Fantastic.

Tango case [Ten One. Thanks, Jenny!]

See Also:

• Pogo Stylus: The Most Useless iPhone Accessory. Ever
• Pogo Stick Turns Mac Touchpads into Graphics Tablets
• Junk
• Pogo iPhone Stylus Bounces Back. Again