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Apple reveals second-gen Apple Pencil, complete with gesture support and wireless charging, at Brooklyn media event

If you liked the first Apple Pencil, you’ll like this. The second-gen Apple Pencil was revealed today at Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” media event in Brooklyn, the new stylus for the iPad Pro featuring support for gestures developers can assign in their apps. The new Apple Pencil has a swipe and tap area […]

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Hardware iPad News

Disney animators test out iPad Pro, comment on “textured” surface

This is pretty interesting. Apple apparently allowed Pixar’s staff to play around with the upcoming iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. A week later, Apple let Disney’s Feature Animation studio take a crack at it. The animators commented that the device’s screen surface has “tooth,” or textured roughness, to augment drawing feel.

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Axiotron announces Modbook Pro products, points towards early fall launch

It’s been a while since we covered this. Per MacRumors, Axiotron, creators of the famed Modbook tablet, has announced a new generation of Modbook Pro products. Built from a unique enclosure conversion kit, the Modbook Pro incorporates and completely encases the original hardware of a new Apple MacBook Pro 13.3-inch base system. Its Wacom digitizer […]