Ten One Design outs iPad 3 pressure sensitive Bluetooth stylus
Ten One Design has brought a number of well-received accessories to the iOS world, including the recently announced Magnus iPad stand. Now the company has taken the wraps off of a new pressure sensitive stylus that it is publicly stating as "our first product for the iPad 3."
Dubbed "Project Blue Tiger", the stylus uses Bluetooth 4.0 to automatically link with an iPad or iPhone with no pairing required. The width of the line drawn by the stylus is controlled by pressure, and there's a tiny multi-colored LED that displays the current color of "ink" being dispensed by the virtual pen.
Before you rush out and order one of the as-yet-unnamed styluses, please understand that Ten One Design hasn't yet made the decision to produce the device. As Ten One states on their website, the product will ship after being approved by the FCC, and if there is enough developer support. The company has developed a free API to allow developers to integrate the stylus with their drawing or painting apps.
Full details of the stylus, including the name and price, should be available soon. Be sure to check out the demo video below.
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Do they realize how much trouble they are in for if there was any type of NDA or if that is a real iPad 3?
March 05 2012 at 11:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThey still need to take care of the large contact point of the stylus, i.e., the half-sphere tip of the pen. Then it will be easy to draw with.
March 05 2012 at 10:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYes, I was watching this video and hoping it would be a stylus that doesn't have that air filled tip as all of them do. I do not understand why they don't come up with one that has a solid tip with the capacitive material wrapped over it. I hate the spongie feel and would much rather have a solid tip, with that and this hand protection keeping my wrist and fingers from accidentally writing it would be a no brainer over purchasing this.
March 06 2012 at 11:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAgree, completely. It's not (yet) Bluetooth 4.0, but Adonit's Jot Touch (http://adonit.net/product/jot-touch) should solve this issue when released.
I own the Jot Pro, which has the same crosshair contact point, and love it. I have recommended it to friends and bought it as gifts for relatives.
The concept is cool, but the problem is that it's still a capacitive stylus. Unless Apple has improved the digitizer, you wont be able to draw very fine or precise without problems. For this very reason, most note taking apps have a zoom view where you can write larger where the digitizer understands your input. The only real solution is Cregels iPen which uses pen tracking instead of the digitizer. --too bad Apple is taking its time approving the iPen because it's a better approach than this one.
March 05 2012 at 9:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDidnt Jobs say if it had a stylus it was dead?
March 05 2012 at 9:10 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplySteve: "It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager... they blew it. Users shouldn't ever have to think about it."
March 06 2012 at 12:51 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyUnfortunately for Jobs there are some things that only a stylus is good for and that our fat sausage meat-bag fingers just can't handle well. The sad part is all the styluses are still just emulations of our fat fingers, there are reasons society and art moved beyond finger paints to brushes and eventually pencil/pens.
Jobs was right that if you are REQUIRED to use a stylus to use the device or a feature, then it's dead. Now IMO if a stylus makes the interaction BETTER, it really should be considered. Artists and writers (and notetakers) have said with their dollars they want a BETTER interaction. This is why I don't dis the Samsung Note for having one... I dis it for it's size :P.
The iPad 2 doesn't have Bluetooth 4.0, so either the demo is on a current-version iPad or they've just leaked the iPad 3.
March 05 2012 at 8:24 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Replyi doubt it. I have a feeling they're just saying it will be BT 4.0 and wanted to be fancy by saying it already has it. And is it possible to be both BT 4.0 and 3.0? Or they could've tested it with other tablets.
March 06 2012 at 12:50 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyBluetooth is backwards compatible.
March 06 2012 at 6:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi wonder if it will work with Beat Slice
March 05 2012 at 7:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI had an idea similar to this. Hopefully it works well. Doubt it'll be able to beat a proper Wacom tablet though.
March 05 2012 at 7:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCouldn't this all be related to the pressure applied in the tip of the pen and not with the screen? The API could translate the pressure applied to the pen on the screen to the width of the line drawn... I don't think this pen means that the screens will have pressure sensitivity. Feel free to disagree.
March 05 2012 at 7:15 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyTo be honest, I thought Wacom had a touch sensitive pen. It would be the pen that does all the work. Check this out, uses sound instead:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonatherton/jaja-worlds-first-pressure-sensitive-stylus-for-ip
Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo offers an upbeat unusually unrestrained review of the Cintiq 24HD... I think he said he wanted to lick it, make love to it and marry it.
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