We're interested in using a stylus with the iPad, for projecting screens and "writing" on them, then saving both the original images and the written information.
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You (most likely) will be able to use the same styluses that work with the iPhone. The screens use the same capacitative touch-screen technology. |
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Since the iPad screen is a capacitive touchscreen the answer would be that any stylus designed to work with devices such as the iPhone or the Macbook trackpad would work with the iPad too. My favourite pen that I use daily with my iPhone and to paint with is the Pogo Sketch it works even better than many of the active digitisers I have used in the past. (Except the great Wacom tablets.) As for being able to write on the iPad would depend on the application, In Keynote for example you can write directly on to slides while presenting and it has been hinted that Evernote will support handwriting as they do on the desktop clients but that has yet to be /formally/ announced. |
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I've got a stylus that works really well with the iPhone - I'm assuming it'll also work with the iPad. I teach lower primary and next year will have a primary 1 class. I'm hoping to use a stylus with their iPads to help them with pencil control when forming letters and numbers. |
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An exciting possibility, at this point only a "reasonable speculation," is that some iteration of the iPad will allow handwriting with an invisible stylus. See this article, published in October 2009, describing Apple's patent for a multitouch display allowing both hands with many many points of contact, along with means for interpreting very complex gestures for interacting with objects on the screen. One of the features described explicitly in the patent is means to interpret small motions of the heel of the hand and knuckles as one pretends to write with an imaginary pen! Talk about magic. :) My pure guess is that the complex multitouch display will be available soon (if it isn't already built in), but it'll take a long time to get the software implementation to be dependable. |
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As mentioned above, you could use the pogo stylus. However, I see a potential problem while annotating using an iPad. That is, when you lay your hand on the iPad and try and write, the touchscreen will sense your palm resting on the screen and it may think that it's a pen trying to write something. Don't know whether app developers are able to implement a system whereby the app rejects handtouches and only the thinnest touch? |
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