Thursday, March 01, 2012

Will Designers Take to the iPad3? - Technology Review

Excerpt from a NUI reality check

Steve Jobs disliked styluses. He told his biographer, “God gave us 10 styluses—let’s not invent another.” In 2007, when he introduced the iPhone, Jobs effectively killed the stylus. “Yech!” he said, and his fans applauded.

The critical tide is shifting, however. Farhad Manjoo recently declared in Slate his hope that the stylus would make a return someday soon. He embedded this intriguing 2010 video from Ken Hinckley on the new kinds of interactions that become possible when combining touch and stylus interactions on a screen.

Will Designers Take to the iPad3? - Technology Review

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