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) 1 user marked this as a favorite
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




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


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


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


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


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