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Apple may have designed the iPhone's touch screen for finger input only, but that hasn't stopped a company called Ten One Design from releasing the a stylus – the first – for Apple's smartphone.

The Pogo Sylus, $25, is composed of aluminum and features soft foam tip, which is supposed to simulate a finger tip, but without the smudges that greasy fingers tend to leave behind. A soft tip is a prerequisite for any iPhone stylus, as the iphone's display is quite different from your typical touch screen. A plastic or metal tip simply won't do the trick.

A custom holster keeps Pogo—available in three colors (black, gunmetal and silver)—nestled right next to your iPhone. So you always know where it is should the need for Pogo arises.

The question is: Why would you need a stylus for the iPhone in the first place?

After all, part of the charm of the iPhone's interface is Apple's multi-touch technology, which supports multi-finger gestures and can ignore inadvertent touches. Squeeze your fingers together to shrink a picture, apart to enlarge an image, for example.

It would seem multi-finger gestures would be hard to perform with stylus sitting in your hand like a pencil or pen, right?

Then again, with winter approaching, how many iPhone users will welcome the prospect of having to take of their gloves to make any sort of entry when temperatures start to fall well below zero? Not many I would think.

The Pogo isn't just for the iPhone. You can also use it with the iPod Touch.