Manufacturers of mobile devices want to differentiate themselves through advanced features that meet consumer demand for a natural user interface with the ease of pen and paper, combined with the ...

A video at metacafe has made the rounds through the DIY blogs that demonstrates how to make your own stylus for the iPod touch, which presumably would work on other capacitive touchscreens, as we’ve ...

There are two main types of touchscreens used on mobile devices today — capacitive and resistive. The resistive touchscreen allows for stylus input while the capacitive supports finger input and doesn ...

Tired of smudging and prints all over the shiny glass of your tablet's display? Looking for something a little more realistic than your finger for writing, drawing or painting? Here are two good ...

Capacitive screens are all the rage. iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Android: they all have them. They're smoother and easier to use than the old resistive touchscreens, and all you need is a finger, ...

In order to appease more users who may want finer control of their tablets, Samsung is releasing its own Conductive Pen, priced at $19.99, which would work on the company’s Galaxy Tab Android tablets ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 16, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has announced highly accurate passive stylus support for capacitive touchscreen technology. With a 1-mm accurate tip, Cypress's ...

About a week ago I bought a new hard drive and while installing it today I discovered that the antistatic protective film that had covered the hard drive was messing up my HTC HD2's touch screen. The ...

and is currently making its way from conceptual idea to production on the Kickstarter website. Unlike other stylus designs for capacitive touch tablets, the Jot has a very small nib measuring just 2 ...

The stylus has had a pretty traumatic life. It was a necessary tool back in the beginning of the smartphone and PDA era, as mobile operating systems weren’t designed with stubby fingertips in mind.

Atmel has announced an active stylus chip that delivers “accuracy and linearity of +/-0.25mm” on a capacitive touch screen from a 1mm diameter stylus tip, claimed the firm. The chip is installed in ...