Inka Pen: write anywhere with ink or use the hidden stylus

Not happy with your OEM stylus? Did it fall from its housing or silo and now you can’t find it? Wish you had a pen and stylus combo? Need to write underwater or at high altitudes? If you answered yes to any of these questions, the $20 Inka Pen might be right up your alley. This versatile writing instrument has an stainless-steel ring on one end to keep it attached to you, your keys, your cat, whatever…. [Note: we don't condone using your cat as a secondary gadget bag, although mine has been known to pick up a stylus in her mouth and run like the dickens].

The pen sits inside a sealed, stainless-steel barrel and uses a pressurized ink cartridge with a tungsten carbide tip. If you need a full-length pen, you can screw the pen into the barrel. If you need a PDA stylus or a short tip for a touchscreen tablet, there’s one tucked inside the pen barrel. I wouldn’t use this as an everyday stylus on my UMPC, but it could be useful for a touchscreen handheld. To shed a little weight, you can upgrade to a full titanium barrel at $50; that’ll get you from 0.6-ounces to 0.45. I’d personally opt not to…just makes it that much easier for the cat to steal.

(via SlipperyBrick)