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Geeks over a certain age will recall that smartphones and PDAs didn't originally have finger touch interfaces and instead of using a digit to control the device, a stylus was used to tap and poke the buttons on the screen. Partly this was a limitation of the screen size - the original Palm Pilot 1000 only had 160 x 160
I recently purchased a Huion brand Digital Artist Glove for Drawing Tablet via Amazon for use when drawing and painting with my Surface Pro 3 using the Microsoft Pen digital stylus. The idea of a digital artist’s glove is to electrically isolate the parts of one’s hand that would normally rest on the surface of a glass capacitive touchscreen when
Being able to draw well is actually a learned skill, not a talent as many of us erroneously believe.
I'm not a fan of capacitive touch screens as they are the user interface of a 5 year old, which is great for finger-painting but useless if you want to do anything precise, such as write normally or position a cursor between two letters. And multitouch is over-rated: I'd rather be able to place one point exactly than five blurry
I like to draw and doodle, so I recently brought a couple of drawing applications for my iPad including Paper by FiftyThree and Sketchbook MobileX and Draw Some. I quickly discovered that drawing with your finger maybe fun, but it is very imprecise. It is like doing finger-painting. Despite what Steve Jobs said there are times when a stylus is
Swedish company Penclic think that the pen is mightier than the sword mouse so Andy gets to grips with the Penclic Mouse to see if it's true. A picture paints a thousand words and once you've seen the picture to the left, you'll pretty much have grasped (sorry) the concept. You hold the Penclic Mouse as you would hold a pen and
The iPad was purposely designed to be used without a stylus, but that doesn't stop some users from wanting one. It's especially handy for things like editing a document, writing notes, or for drawing apps. Now eFun has introduced one especially made for the iPad. The new stylus comes with a lot of options as well. You can not only