Have you used a stylus lately? If so, there’s a good chance you’ve experienced Sudden Stylus Separation Syndrome – a sudden panic caused by worry that you’ve lost your stylus. It’s not like any old ...

For many years just about every portable device came with a stylus. Whether it was the revolutionary Eo Slate with its PenPoint OS, the doomed Apple Newton, the very successful PalmPilot, or ...

You may not realize it, but the modern stylus is a bit of a mess. The main problem is lack of standardization. Think about it. You can use a mouse, or keyboard, or monitor with most systems — whether ...

In computing, a stylus (or stylus pen) is a small pen-shaped instrument that is used to input commands to a computer screen, mobile device or graphics tablet. With touchscreen devices, a user places a ...

The consumer-electronics giant has borrowed from competitors, particularly Microsoft's Surface Pro computer, to juice its iPad's capabilities. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News ...

Before multitouch and capacitive displays, the stylus was used for touch input. Microsoft is hoping to bring back the stylus with a pen that can work with any display – even non-touchscreens – with a ...

A newly granted patent suggests that Apple is working on a stylus that doesn't need a screen or even a surface to function.