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Here is the first real photo of the Leonardo Fine Tip Ball Point Stylus prototype. While production is still 1 month away things are heading into the right direction.    

It's almost time for a new Leonardo in 2014 and we have decided to design a ball point pen this time. The pen will be made of anodised aluminium and will most likely come is the 6 known Leonardo colours, but we will also add a silver and a black option this time. Each pen will come with 3 extra replacement tips and the extra tips will have their own little storage compartment in the tip of the pen. Exciting times. We are only a few weeks away from production and should have this pen ready for shipping by the...

Let me take you back to 2007, when Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs first introduced the world to the iPhone. At one point, he reached the subject of touch input. “Who wants a stylus? You have to get ‘em and put ‘em away, and you lose ‘em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. So let’s not use a stylus.” And with those few lines, he split the touchscreen world into two camps: finger input and stylus input. For a long time, there were debates about which is better. It’s safe to say that the finger has come out on top,...

Qualcomm wasn’t about to just let Samsung and Nvidia own that portion of the tablet market that is stylus-enabled. Samsung has been the dominant player in the stylus market for years, because they were the only ones to make pens that actually worked accurately enough to be useful for handwriting and drawing on a tablet. Pretty much all of the “capacitive styluses” are no better than our fingers, so having something that works like a real pen on a tablet was a huge improvement over the other solutions out there.   However, we haven’t really seen anyone else challenge Samsung...