Superficially, the iPad’s incredible multi-touch screen has a lot of potential for graphic artists, but in reality, the lack of a stylus and the tablet’s own inability to distinguish applied user pressure gimps the iPad’s ability to challenge the venerable Wacom tablet.
To show us what could easily be, the guys at Ten One Design have put together this video in which they demonstrate an iPad capable of sensing the pressure applied to a Pogo Stylus.
It’s an impressive video, but there’s a rub: Ten One Design has to use a private API call to make the pressure function work, which means that it’s nothing we can expect to see on the iPad unless Apple rolls it into their UIKit framework.
Get on it, Apple. Through the dark times, it was artists and graphic designers who supported your brand; now it’s time to give them the drawing tablet they’ve always wanted.
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.
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Agreed. Get on it Apple.
It’s what I dreamed of the moment I stopped giggling at the name and seriously considered the ipad’s potential uses.
Of all the things the iPad CAN do this is what I most WANT it to do. I can see serious investment if Apple can wise up and get on the band-wagon. There are few art students that don’t want a mobile digital drawing studio. Seriously.
Refuse to buy an Ipad until this technology is adopted by Apple. What’s the delay?
Apple, wake up and listen to your customers! You started out as a company catering more for the artists than anybody else, it’s time for you to step up and do it again. The artists have spoken, we want pen pressure.