What is this widget?

November 5, 2021 3:33 PM

This has been floating around my house for…a while. I have no idea what it is.

Here are a couple of pictures 1 2. The four "bits" are plastic and each has a differently shaped tip. The bottom of the gray package has a two-pronged clip that probably snaps onto something else. The cutting mat it's on is ruled 1" for scale.

posted by adamrice to Grab Bag (7 answers total)

Do they have pencil leads inside them? The codes match pencil hardnesses and blacknesses, I think.
posted by chappell, ambrose at 3:36 PM on November 5, 2021 [3 favorites]

Best answer: Replacement nibs for your Microsoft Surface pen
posted by Hatashran at 3:39 PM on November 5, 2021 [7 favorites]

Best answer: They appear to be a Surface Pen Tip Kit from Microsoft.
posted by papayaninja at 3:39 PM on November 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Microsoft Surface Pen Tip Kit 2
posted by XtineHutch at 3:44 PM on November 5, 2021

You put them on the pen to make them feel more like different kinds of pencils.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 4:11 PM on November 5, 2021 [2 favorites]

Real pencil hardness scale for fake pencil/digital stylus hardness equivalent.

What a world!
posted by SaltySalticid at 4:40 PM on November 5, 2021 [4 favorites]

Response by poster: That was quick. Thanks y'all. I have no idea how these tips got wedged in my house or why.
posted by adamrice at 5:34 PM on November 5, 2021 [12 favorites]