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It seems Apple reckons Samsung’s on the right track with its Galaxy Note 10.1. Two newly published patents for an Apple iPen for the iPad, detail a haptic feedback stylus that’ll let you feel your brush strokes.
Apparently the stylus Apple’s thinking of will give you lots of feedback when selecting icons; breaking window boundaries; moving over certain “textures”, and even for a bit of gaming. It’ll also be packed with accelerometers too, and have a built-in speaker to boot — any one else think that sounds suspiciously like a tiny pen-shaped Wiimote?. How the iPen will actually interact with the iPad’s screen is up for debate with one patent indicating it’ll have a small camera in the nose to detect where on the screen it is. I’m guessing it’ll probably be bluetooth, either that or Apple will have to build something new into the next “new” iPad, maybe even a bit of NFC?
We shouldn’t be surprised that Apple’s working on something like this since it fervently insisted that if you needed to use a stylus on your phone or tablet, you’d failed. Then again, this could just be a patent for patent’s sake.
At any rate, I’m not sure I’d get the most of out a stylus for my iPad. I’m not exactly an artist, but then it might be pretty cool for some massive DS-style games. Maybe it’d even make Draw Something popular again. [Patently Apple via MacWorld]
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Hmmm, iPhone with bigger screen, iPad with stylus. I suggest that they attach some kind of a generator to Steve Job’s grave as the rotation could power one of their datacentres
Steve will not turn in his grave as he’s been ground up and sprinkled onto every iDevice made since his death.. So everything has a little Jobs Magic in it
Given the sales of the 4S and the iPad £ I’d be very surprised if they have any of him left then.
Nah every picture of him you saw before his death was Photoshopped to make him look skinny. He was 20stone when he died so plenty to go around. he was big boned too !
They’re using a homeopathic recipe so it lasts longer.
Just a patent, don’t get too excited, apple makes many patents and it does not mean they will be used. However, if this stylus solved the issues with today s styluses then I don’t see why Steve jobs would be rolling in his grave