Over the weekend, we showed you sexy new renders that showed the rumored new 12-inch MacBook Air and iPad Pro side-by-side. Designed by render artist extraordinaire Martin Hajek, it gave us our best look yet at what Apple’s next big products could look like.
But in the renders we saw, Hajek’s iPad Pro was missing at least one critical ingredient: the plus-size tablet’s rumored stylus accessory. Now Hajek’s back, giving us his notion of what a Jony Ive-designed stylus could look like.
Hajek gets a little crazy with the stylus. He imagines it as as featuring a capacitive +/- slider for various operations, biosensors plucked from the back of the Apple Watch, and even a Digital Crown on top to make it a more fully featured accessory for pros.
None of these features have popped up in the Apple rumor mill, so it seems unlikely the iPad Pro’s stylus will have them. But hey, imagine if they did: In that case, I might actually want to buy an iPad Pro.
Source: Martin Hajek
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
6 responses to “Even Steve Jobs would approve if the iPad Pro’s stylus looks like this”
Grasping at straws are we?
I’d probably like to buy an iPad Pro for home use to watch videos and browse instead of firing up my aged 2007 MacBook Pro. I wouldn’t mind having a display larger than the current 8.9″ iPad. However, I know the Pro will come with a Pro price but that’s to be expected. I’m sure it will be worth it if it’s got an A9 or A9X powering it.
Wow…I always love it when writers think they know what someone would do or approve of…
lol agreed
not feeling it. furthermore, I bought the bamboo stylus for my iPad mini thinking I would use it for drawing apps. it’s been sitting on my bookshelf for nearly a year collecting dust and I use my iPad every single day for atleast an hour; usually two. there’s no use for it. Steve was right.
For me it would be nice to be able to take written notes but thats about it. The current crop of styli have wide points which make them unusable for that purpose…it would be nice to be able to take hand written notes (not a fan of typing on the iPad keyboard) and have them transcribed into a document afterwards. I remember the old “graffiti” recognition system used by Palm…it was perfect for that purpose and I could write notes very quickly…