Adobe reveals new foray into hardware with Project Mighty smart stylus, Napoleon ruler

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  • Reply 21 of 37
    dtb200dtb200 Posts: 48member
    I like both products v much and it's a good video presentation but did he really say 'ideating' ??? and his last sentence, "we're only beginning to scratch the surface" aaaarrrrggh - not the thing to say to an iDevice owner... :-)
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  • Reply 22 of 37
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member

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    Originally Posted by blackfrog View Post



    Too bad this pen is tied to Adobe Cloud. I would pay $200 for the pair, but the only way I'm going to start a cloud subscription is if it's less than $10/mo. And we know it's going to cost more than that.



    There must have been some interesting battles inside Adobe's Marketing department, between the Sell It Standalone crowd, and the We Must Create Value For Cloud crowd.



    Hm. Maybe someone will jailbreak it ... :-D


     


    Yeah, it's a no-go with me also. I'd rather own the stuff and never pay for a monthly subscription. There are too many alternatives that make far more sense.

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  • Reply 23 of 37
    just_mejust_me Posts: 590member


    Fail.  Stylus bad. SJ says so.

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  • Reply 24 of 37
    jlanddjlandd Posts: 873member

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    Fail.  Stylus bad. SJ says so.



    I originally got a Wacom many years ago just for graphics and image tweaking but it never leaves my hand even when I'm not doing those, though it's not the same as a stylus on the screen.  But when I sit down at my own computer the first thing I always do is pick up the stylus even if I'm just checking mail.


     


     I always smirk at that Jobs stylus quote.  Same as everything else he ever said.  If it wasn't currently in Apple's pipeline it was a terrible idea.

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  • Reply 25 of 37
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    jlandd wrote: »
    I always smirk at that Jobs stylus quote.  Same as everything else he ever said.  If it wasn't currently in Apple's pipeline it was a terrible idea.

    You need to look at his quote in context. He didn't say that anything other than your finger was a bad idea, he was commenting on the state of smartphones at the time. If you're primary use of the device needs to be from a stylus because you have a UI designed for a stylus you've failed. That is still true today. That doesn't mean there aren't uses for a stylus that a finger can't replicate, it just means it can't be the primary way you interact with the device.
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  • Reply 26 of 37
    elliots11elliots11 Posts: 290member
    This looks great! I'd like to see less lag in the pen, but it is still really new. I laughed at the Napolean = Little Ruler joke.
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  • Reply 27 of 37
    zachlachzachlach Posts: 18member
    Are there other uses for this pen? Such as using the stylus to write on PDFs or to write notes and have it convert to text. Or is this just for artist?
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  • Reply 28 of 37
    zozmanzozman Posts: 393member


    So kickass, im totally getting them.

    wont need a new Wacom :D 

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  • Reply 29 of 37
    airbubbleairbubble Posts: 105member


    I wonder about the ruler & wether it has a soft underside to it? Since heave work after a year on your device would probable cause damage


    to the screen!


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    Originally Posted by GadgetCanada View Post


    It looks pretty cool until I saw the lag of the stylus movements to the iPad. But this has more to do with the iPad limitations. Right now the iPad input latency is around 100ms. Apple needs to get the input latency down to about 10ms (or better 1ms) then the iPad will be very good at drawing and markup. Microsoft made an interesting mockup tablet video comparing various input latencies at



    Well that's what's always bothered me, but I haven't tried any drawing apps but now & again you see they get a bit of lag while drawing. 


     


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    There are at least several display types I've seen (on YouTube) that enable pressure sensing in a natural way without a pen. A display that can sense a pen and ignore the palm and also still function using fingers only would be a good path for Apple to follow... at least to get ahead of Microsoft, Samsung and whichever low-cost Chinese companies rise as competitors in the future.



    That's true but sticking with it's Adobe the gloves will help.


     


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    Still needs a hardware digitising layer on the iPad itself for this stuff to truly work properly. Notice how carefully he avoided touching the screen at all times.



    If you have to worry about where you place your hand on the screen and hold the pen in an un-natural or unusual way to get it to work, then it isn't "drawing."


    Well you can always get artist-gloves like SmudgeGuard or similar.

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  • Reply 30 of 37
    palegolaspalegolas Posts: 1,362member
    Pretty nice. He looks really proud :)
    The pen tips need to get thinner though in order to get truly useful. Is Apple preventing tiny input shapes, or is it a hardware drawback of the touch technology they chose?

    ps. what's up with the latency? Looks like a really slow drawing engine there. What software is he using?
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  • Reply 31 of 37


    I'm on board!  This is the first Adobe product I have been interested in in a long time.

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  • Reply 32 of 37
    I'm glad someone is going to get into the market and Compete.

    Although Adobe has taken what COULD be something awesome and guaranteed it's failure. A pen that stops working when the payments aren't made?

    It's not that I'm apposed to leasing -- oh wait, yes I am -- because it's the slippery slope to indentured servitude. Kids getting out of College are paying back for this "privilege" for longer and longer periods -- a "privilege" that mainly benefits whatever company they work for which didn't pay taxes to cover that cost.

    So now I've got a pen and ruler that stop working and it can be tied into a draft from my bank account. Along with the Adobe cloud software, my car, my mortgage. I can visualize an IV stuck in my vein and if I don't take enough blood from others -- I run out.

    Why is this always on the creative people? Why no briefcases that can't unlock if you skip a payment?

    Someone above wondered about the technical reason why fingers cannot be used for the arcs like the ruler -- the real reason? Think; "Skylanders." It's a kids game that is incomplete until you've bought about 12 highly priced plastic figures to sit on top of their port. Each character has special capabilities and hack-proof chips so that nobody else can make them. Why can't the pen just be laid on it's side and it's suddenly a ruler? Too obvious; the PEN has special hack-proof capabilities that cannot be copied due to DMCA. If you don't rent the ruler as well and get the other 10 characters, Adobe cannot squeeze more money out of you.

    Why not a Dragon for Dragon Dictate? A Dog to go "fetch my data" from Google and it won't come home unless I keep buying virtual Scooby Snacks®....

    What a concept, an i-Pad that is just a window to continuing fees, and you buy a bunch of plastic characters to enhance it's capabilities. Time to repurpose the "Dora the Explorer" backpacks for all the computer chipped pieces of plastic junk we will carry around to use our software.

    Do get the complete capabilities -- you end up anchoring your iPad to your desk at home and get a dongle hub. Make sure you get Gigabit internet connection with an "actual" unlimited data plan as your devices will need to communicate back. FaceBook hookup and linkedIn are required for full use of devices.
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  • Reply 33 of 37
    I'm glad someone is going to get into the market and Compete.

    Although Adobe has taken what COULD be something awesome and guaranteed it's failure. A pen that stops working when the payments aren't made?

    It's not that I'm apposed to leasing -- oh wait, yes I am -- because it's the slippery slope to indentured servitude. Kids getting out of College are paying back for this "privilege" for longer and longer periods -- a "privilege" that mainly benefits whatever company they work for which didn't pay taxes to cover that cost.

    So now I've got a pen and ruler that stop working and it can be tied into a draft from my bank account. Along with the Adobe cloud software, my car, my mortgage. I can visualize an IV stuck in my vein and if I don't take enough blood from others -- I run out.

    Why is this always on the creative people? Why no briefcases that can't unlock if you skip a payment?

    Someone above wondered about the technical reason why fingers cannot be used for the arcs like the ruler -- the real reason? Think; "Skylanders." It's a kids game that is incomplete until you've bought about 12 highly priced plastic figures to sit on top of their port. Each character has special capabilities and hack-proof chips so that nobody else can make them. Why can't the pen just be laid on it's side and it's suddenly a ruler? Too obvious; the PEN has special hack-proof capabilities that cannot be copied due to DMCA. If you don't rent the ruler as well and get the other 10 characters, Adobe cannot squeeze more money out of you.

    Why not a Dragon for Dragon Dictate? A Dog to go "fetch my data" from Google and it won't come home unless I keep buying virtual Scooby Snacks®....

    What a concept, an i-Pad that is just a window to continuing fees, and you buy a bunch of plastic characters to enhance it's capabilities. Time to repurpose the "Dora the Explorer" backpacks for all the computer chipped pieces of plastic junk we will carry around to use our software.

    Do get the complete capabilities -- you end up anchoring your iPad to your desk at home and get a dongle hub. Make sure you get Gigabit internet connection with an "actual" unlimited data plan as your devices will need to communicate back. FaceBook hookup and linkedIn are required for full use of devices.
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  • Reply 34 of 37
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    @ Fake_William_Shatner,

    You would do yourself a favour by using paragraphs.
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  • Reply 35 of 37
    zeekzeek Posts: 1member
    Pretty cool. Although he might have wanted to end the clip without saying "I think we're just scratching the surface!"
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  • Reply 36 of 37
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member

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    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post



    @ Fake_William_Shatner,



    You would do yourself a favour by using paragraphs.


     


    "Wut r prgrphs?"


     


    image

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  • Reply 37 of 37
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member

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    Originally Posted by palegolas View Post



    Pretty nice. He looks really proud image

    The pen tips need to get thinner though in order to get truly useful. Is Apple preventing tiny input shapes, or is it a hardware drawback of the touch technology they chose?



    ps. what's up with the latency? Looks like a really slow drawing engine there. What software is he using?


    I'm with you on the size of pen tip, I was always found those large rubbery pens for iOS to be absolutely useless. I would prefer if Apple would just use Wacom and be done with it already. I use Autosketch's Sketchbook, AsusTek's SuperNote and MS Word with handwriting enabled on a pretty regular bases on my Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2. There is no way an iPad can beat a Active Digitizer and I just can't see Adobes new pen even coming close to it's accuracy, the iPad just wasn't designed for use with a pen, trying to force the issue just seems gimmicky to me. I also have a Wacom Bamboo Create with the wireless package for my Macbook Air, it's very portable and one of the coolest products I own for Photoshop. If you're going to draw, edit photos then there is no substitute for a MacBook with a Wacom board. Going the tablet route for photo editing, then I hate to say it but a Intel i5/i7 Windows 8 tablet with a Wacom pen is your only true option (you can always turn it into a Hackintosh), unless you have the cash to buy a Modbook for 3 grand.


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