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Zanco S-Pen is a chunky stylus that also thinks it’s a mobile phone

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Bored that every blower these days looks like an identical slab of metal and glass? Then take a look at Zanco S-Pen ($49). As its name suggests, it looks like a pen – or rather one of those chunky markers a teacher might once have lobbed at your head when you weren’t paying attention. You can use the thing as a stylus, too, or a laser pen – but also as a phone, which is plainly bonkers. What’s more bonkers is it’ll also function as a camera, video recorder, MP3 player, and voice recorder. The battery lasts six days, although you’ll only need about six seconds to baffle friends on pulling the thing out and telling them you’re going to use it to take a selfie.

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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Mobile apps and games, Macs, iOS and tvOS devices, Android, retro games, crowdfunding, design, how to fight off an enraged smart saucepan with a massive stick.