Despite Steve Jobs' dislike of styluses as pointing and writing devices for smartphones and tablets, a lot of people find the pointy sticks to be a necessity for accuracy. But there are still some ...

Back in the 2000s, when touchscreen devices were beginning to become a thing, it was almost compulsory to see them paired with a stylus. In fact, a stylus was considered to be an enabler rather than ...

Apple Pencil fans would love to use the excellent Apple stylus on other devices, like the iPhone. However, Apple doesn’t make an Apple Pencil or an iPhone that work together. What would recreate the ...

Apple Pencil price too high? Check out these alternative iPad styluses and digital pens. A stylus or digital pen, or in this case the Apple Pencil, provides new ways of interacting with mobile devices ...

Go to a meeting at a nice hotel or conference venue, and you'll likely find a fresh pad of paper and a pencil or pen neatly set out at each place. This seems like a pleasant anachronism in an age when ...

A future version of the Apple Pencil could be customized for comfort, with sections of the stylus expanding or changing shape to suit the user's drawing or writing style for their particular hand. The ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Back in 1979, the ...

I recently challenged the longstanding requirement among math teachers for students to “show your work.” Now it’s time to go after another common math teacher mandate: always use pencil. The reason I ...

Pens or pencils? For Brexit supporters headed to the polls today, the answer was obvious: pens. As voters began casting ballots on whether Britain should leave the European Union, backers of a British ...

Elections Canada wants you to know your ballot will count whether you mark it with a pen or with a pencil. The independent agency says it’s seeing posts on social media claiming voters have to use a ...