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Doodling or making quick notes with pencil and paper is so old school. Cheap. Dependable. Easy to use. Erasable. But old school. Enter the digital sketchpad/notepad. No wasted paper. Tree friendly.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Pencil, perhaps, is the first Bluetooth stylus that normal people will love. Unlike with most Bluetooth styluses, ...

It’s been years since I took a serious run at handwritten notes on the iPad. However, that changed with my recent experiments with the Boox Tab Ultra, which led me back to the benefits of jotting down ...

Art-minded app and hardware developer FiftyThree on Tuesday announced it will be adding an iOS 8-exclusive feature to the "Paper" drawing app that lets users of the company's "Pencil" stylus change ...

Adding onto research on tablet screens that could simulate a textured surface, Apple is looking at ways to include sensors and haptics in the tip of a stylus to better simulate the feel of paper ...

FiftyThree, the company behind the wildly popular iPad creativity app Paper, is making its first foray into hardware with the launch of a new stylus it’s creatively named “Pencil.” For those who know ...

We’ve already seen a pen with silver-based ink, that lets its user draw electrical circuits on ordinary paper. Now, scientists from MIT have brought similar “hands on” technology to the humble pencil ...

The iPad never came with a stylus. Steve Jobs’s famous quip was, “God gave us 10 styluses–let’s not invent another.” In some ways the quote epitomizes Apple’s legacy of design simplicity, and in some ...