Welcome to gpik™!
My name is Gordon Adkins and I invented gpik™.
Here is exactly how it happened:
In April of 2006 my car was broken into in Memphis, Tennessee and my Dell® Axim™ handheld organizer was stolen. As a result of that theft I was forced back into the market for an organizer and discovered that I could buy a PDA and get both a cell phone as well as a handheld computer so I purchased a PDA with a touch screen pad. I immediately became very frustrated with the pen like stylus that came with the PDA. It was cumbersome, very awkward to use and it always required two hands. On top of that, I would either drop or lose it and it cost $10 - $15 and several days to replace it.
My mind wouldn’t stop trying to solve the problem because I really love to multi-task. I knew there had to be a better way -- including thinking that I could use duct tape or Velcro® and fasten something to my thumb along with many other crazy ideas—then I stopped into a music store and purchased a guitar pik for my thumb. I bent the end so that the point was perpendicular to my thumb – and presto—it worked – it really worked – I was thrilled.
After that, I did continue to work at improving the design and one day a good friend said to me “This really works and you should patent it”. Today I have a patent pending on the super thumb stylus and a trademark on gpik™. Since then I have discovered a myriad of applications for single hand use of gpik™ and realize there are also many individuals who may only have the use of one hand, either because they have lost that use temporarily or perhaps permanently—and so for them I am hopeful that gpik™ will be very useful.
The gpik™ thumb stylus has proven to be a tremendous benefit to those people who need to save time, increase their accuracy and mobility and generally just love to multi-task.
We hope you enjoy gpik™- let us know how you do like it and how we can improve it. Remember in life, is not the destination that matters – it is the journey.
