Doodling or making quick notes with pencil and paper is so old school. Cheap. Dependable. Easy to use. Erasable. But old school. Enter the digital sketchpad/notepad. No wasted paper. Tree friendly.

When the iPad arrived in 2010, it was hardly viewed as a creative tool. Tablets were for browsing the Web, watching video and cruising Facebook – not art. While other developers built games, news ...

Art-minded app and hardware developer FiftyThree on Tuesday announced it will be adding an iOS 8-exclusive feature to the "Paper" drawing app that lets users of the company's "Pencil" stylus change ...

Earlier this year, Astropad launched its Magnetic Screen Protector for iPad delivering a paper-like feeling with Apple Pencil. Then the company launched a new product this fall that offers an even ...

Indonesian artist Veri Apriyatno explores the human form and emotion through his hyper-realistic pencil drawings. This series ...

Steve Jobs thought the best stylus was the one between your thumb and your middle finger. The iPad and iPhone were built around that simple idea—that fingers were the ideal tools for interacting with ...

We’ve already seen a pen with silver-based ink, that lets its user draw electrical circuits on ordinary paper. Now, scientists from MIT have brought similar “hands on” technology to the humble pencil ...

Adding onto research on tablet screens that could simulate a textured surface, Apple is looking at ways to include sensors and haptics in the tip of a stylus to better simulate the feel of paper ...

Pencil, perhaps, is the first Bluetooth stylus that normal people will love. Unlike with most Bluetooth styluses, pairing Pencil with an iPad doesn’t require you to flip any switches on the device, or ...