Tag: STYLUS

We've selected our favorite and most promising Kickstarter projects, and spoke with the creators about why they deserve your time (and money). Check them out for yourself, and if these bright young things inspire you, maybe you can help launch their dreams into reality. Kickstarter doesn't have to be about changing the world -- the simple design of a well-crafted stylus may be groundbreaking ...

Hey, student! Did you like our list of the best PDF-reading iPad apps last week? We know that you can't get through your classes with just a handful of essays loaded onto your 'Pad, though, so we've come up with a list of note-taking apps that will help you ditch the spiral notebook and go entirely digital. We're not masters at typing on the iPad's touchscreen just yet, and we find those ...

Back in the '90s, when the Palm operating system was at the core of any good PDA, the stylus was a sign of status, ready to be unsheathed in crucial moments minutes of business. Assuming your habitual geekdom hasn't subsided since those days, and you're running Android, then you're in store for a serious bit of nostalgic goodness. Last week, Access released 'Graffiti,' the stylus text-entry ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. In 2003, artist and musician Amit Pitaru created the Sonic Wire Sculptor, an electronic instrument that used very basic 3-D mapping to create otherworldly sounds. ...

In order to detect when and where you tap, capacitive touchscreens, like the one found on the iPhone, rely on the ability of the human finger to conduct electricity. Unfortunately, that means whenever you don gloves, the device becomes useless. Companies like Ten One Design sell specially designed styli for use with such screens, but some might not want to spend $15 on what amounts to a tube ...