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How can you combine compactness and usability?  The folks at industrialdesign.ru have a real slick way to improve usability for your portable device … the CompactAnalogThumbstick!

“CompactAnalogThumbstick”- improved joystick for portable devices. CAThumbstick is a telescopic analog thumbstick and we offer to use it in any of portable game devices, phones and etc.

The beginning of work with CAThumbstick can be like this: First, the keyboard is locked; we push the button a little bit turning and CAThumbstick pull out from the surface; second, we unlock the keyboard and using CAThumbstick playing or working. After we finished we lock the keyboards, and in reverse order hide CAThumbstick. As a result in a small improvement we receive compact and comfortable analog thumbstick for portable devices. On phones, in ordinary state, CAThumbstick using like usual button.

This is a terrific design and I would hope that we might see it appear on some devices. 

Source: Проект 1 via Core77 via Gizmodo via TechEBlog

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