Gadgets

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.


March 6, 2012
Gadgets

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.


February 24, 2012
Mobile

Samsung’s Note Stylus Has Never Looked Stupider

An advertisement is designed to entrance you into giving away your money — but in Samsung’s case, this Note ad is actually a concise, persuasive reason why you should never buy a Note.


January 11, 2012
Mobile

How the Samsung Galaxy Note’s Stylus Works

We already played with the Samsung Galaxy Note, the confused gargantuan phone/tiny tablet love child, but we didn’t show you HOW THE BEST STYLUS EVER WORKED. Here’s a video about that. And some other features of the Note too. Watch it.


September 16, 2011
Computing

Awesome Stylus/Stand Combo Keeps Bacon Grease Off Your iPad

Cooking with the iPad is great if you don’t mind a greasy screen or you enjoy washing your hands every time you need to navigate on device’s touchscreen. Of course, you always have the option to wrap the thing in plastic wrap.


September 9, 2011
Computing

Pixely ’90s Cursors Make Retro-Wonderful Tablet Styluses

There was a lot of charm to the bygone experience of using a computer in the ’90s; I remember the nuances of my modem’s soothing screech better than the hook from “I Want It That Way” (which is reallyreallyreally well). And the goofy pointer finger cursor was so wonderful that this novelty cursor tablet stylus is actually kind of tempting.


September 2, 2011
Gadgets

Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer Is The Greatest School Gadget Ever

You thought you were pretty awesome in grade school when you’d pull your laser pointer out of your pencil case and pretended to use it like a pen. Admit it, you did. I did. Well yeah, Griffin’s Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer makes that thing look like an outmoded unitasker.


August 4, 2011
Computing

A Pen That Tries To Forget It’s Really A Stylus

The Jot is a bastardised iPad stylus that seems to think it’s some kind of high-born pen. It wears all the trappings of a simple yet elegant ballpoint pen, but it can’t deny what it is.


August 2, 2011
Computing

iStrike Is The iPad Stylus For Your Inner Pyromaniac

Yes, it’s an iPad stylus that looks like a match for no other reason except that it can. But who’s going to make the complementary iPad app that’ll make a flame appear as you drag the stylus across the screen? [Perpetual Kid via ChipChick]


June 28, 2011
Computing

Scribbly Is Still Just An iPad Stylus, But A Really Fun-Looking iPad Stylus

The Scribbly stylus doesn’t do anything that any other iPad doesn’t do. It’s just taken the form of a giant marker, which tricks us all into thinking it’s more fun. It’s probably more comfortable to hold as well. £10.