Originally Posted by
golfmad
Nice try but it's squishy and absolutely no use as a stylus.
I've got a ballpoint pen with the same material. The difference is that the squishy part is over the ballpoint tip exit. The material has a hole in it so that the pen can be extendedto write with. It was a promotional gift from a company and bears their details.
If you want a smaller and or less squishy tip then the stylus needs to be powered. Efrem on the Travel Technology board explains this as well as anyone
Originally Posted by Efrem
iPads have a capacitive screen. It responds to current conducted through your finger or a stylus. However, it doesn't just respond to current. It requires that current to be over an area more or less the size of a fingertip. If you touch it with something smaller such as a stylus nib, it needs extra current to fake a touch over a larger area. In most styli, that current comes from a rechargeable battery. That's what you charge via this port.
A chopstick, aside from its point being too small to work without additional current, doesn't conduct electricity - unless your chopsticks are made of metal. Mine aren't.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/1966902-what-point-ipad-stylus.html