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How Adobe Built A Stylus Fit For The Cloud
Earlier this week we learned that Adobe is abandoning Creative Suite for the cloud. But at the tail end of its announcement, the company also revealed a surprising little hardware project that shows how it plans to augment Creative Cloud: a pressure-sensitive iPad stylus called Project Mighty and its ruler cousin, Napoleon.
Pogo Connect Stylus Review: Half-Baked Pressure Sensitivity For iPad
Despite the myriad uses an iPad can serve up, one area where it falls short is artistic creation. Sure, there are heaps of sketching and painting apps, but they are hampered by one shortcoming of the iPad’s display: lack of pressure sensitivity. The Pogo Connect Stylus tries to mend this gap and open the doors to a more complete artistic experience on the iPad.
Touchscreen-Friendly Fingernails Turn Every Digit Into A Stylus
If you’re a fan of long fingernails, you’ve probably already developed special techniques for using touchscreen devices. But Sri Vellanki, the creator of a fingertip stylus called Tech Tips, feels women shouldn’t be limited to what technology they can use because of their fashion choices. So she’s developed a touchscreen-friendly fingernail that works like a high-precision stylus.
Griffin’s Glowing iPad Stylus Lets Kids Draw Without Banging Up The Screen
Children are drawn to the iPad like flies to honey, but children are also notoriously bad at taking care of their toys. And if the thought of a young’n bashing away at your tablet’s display with a pen leaves you anxious, Griffin’s got you covered with a glowing stylus that lets them draw in mid-air.
Pressure-Sensitive Stylus Turns Your iPad Into A Wacom Tablet
Back in March, we saw a sneak preview of Ten One Design’s slick pressure-sensing touchscreen stylus, codenamed “the Blue Tiger”. The company has finally revealed that the Bluetooth-connected stylus is officially known as the Pogo Connect, and it will have a couple of new tricks up its sleeve when it becomes available for pre-order on October 1.
Pressure-Sensitive Stylus Coming For iPad
There are many iPad styluses out there, but most of them suck. And the ones that are good lack something extremely important for amateur and professional artists alike: pressure sensitiveness. Fortunately, the Jot Touch will be here soon to fix this.
Wacom’s Ballpoint Touchscreen Stylus Works With Paper Tablets Too
Conceding that sometimes making a quick drawing on a piece of paper still has the occasional benefit over sketching on a tablet, Wacom has updated its touchscreen-friendly Bamboo stylus with a capped ballpoint pen on one end.
The First Pressure-Sensitive iPad Stylus Might Just Outperform Your Fingers
Ten One Design’s Pogo was one of the first styluses designed for use with iOS devices. But compared to the company’s new pressure-sensitive super stylus code-named the Blue Tiger, the Pogo looks like something cavemen would have used on their stone tablets.
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