Mobile devices are more and more part of our everyday life. In most of them, like mobile phones or portable game stations, a sometimes quite complex system of game functionalities has been incorporated. They are quite enjoyable during long journeys or game parties with friends.
Games are becoming every day more sophisticated, with new possibilities. The devices are so compact that you can hold them in the palm of your hand.
But....there is still a big drawback, which makes them sometimes unattractive, particularly to experienced players: Thumb sticks.
Well designed analogue thumb sticks for television-game devices are available on the market: very sensitive to any thumb movement in any direction, allowing to click “OK” or “FIRE” during the movement, etc. Unfortunately the size of analogue thumb sticks makes them unsuitable for portable devices.

How we can combine compactness and usability?
We present for your attention “CompactAnalogThumbstick”!

We tried to combine flexibility of movement with compactness, and can present now to you our “Compact Analogue Thumb Stick”- un improved joystick for portable devices.
CA Thumb Stick is a telescopic analogue thumb stick to be used in any portable game device, phone, etc.
It starts like this. The keyboard is locked. A slight button push and turn and the CA Thumb Stick pulls out. After that we unlock the keyboard and start playing. When we finish, again a simple button turn and push and the CA Thumb Stick returns to its original position.
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.

Other kinds of game devices with the CAThumbstick:

Autors: Yurii Elshin, Alexander Sekirash.