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It promised to be the first gadget to perfect handwriting and drawing on the iPad, but after raising almost $160,000 on Kickstarter, the Australian-made Collusion pen and collaboration software has been labelled "unusable". Finished months behind schedule, it joins a series of crowd-funded projects that have fallen far short of expectations by failing to deliver what was promised in a reasonable time frame. Some expected features that were not delivered include importing text and PDF documents for annotation, handwriting recognition, audio recording, offline mode and zooming on the canvas. The founder of Collusion, Robert Yearsley, has worked on start-ups for...

We've finally reached an abundance of riches when it comes to tablets. They're fantastic devices, but you may still be puzzled about which one is right for you. Here's some comparisons to help you make up your mind. I'm not going to compare the definite losers, the BlackBerry and WebOS tablets, both of which where market duds. The Windows 8 tablets have not arrived yet, and chances are that they'll be way too late to the party when they do. Currently they're expected in late 2012. Apple got a year's head start on all the other contenders. The iPad offers...