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Due to the nature of the Apple iPad’s impressive touch-screen display, up until now, it has been impossible to do any real freehand drawing on the device, as its display isn’t pressure-sensitive. However, thanks to the guys at Ten One Design and their incredible iPad software development, by using their Pogo Touchscreen Stylus they have enabled such a feature and intend to share it with developers around the world.

So OK it is never going to be in the same bracket as the likes of the Wacom Graphics Tablet range, but never the less this is a fun, if not necessary inclusion in the development of apps allowing users a lot more freedom in the way they interact with the iPad with a pressure-sensitive drawing tool.
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Apple’s iPad has been available to consumers for a couple of months now, selling as many millions on a global scale. These figures alone give us some indication of the initial success the device has brought to the Cupertino giants.

However, Europe’s largest e-commerce advertising platform, and one-stop shopping service Kelkoo, have produced some of their own facts and figures revealing what people really think when quizzed about the undoubtedly, revolutionary device which act as an interesting follow-up to our previous “Apple iPad – Do We Need A Tablet Device?” article – you perhaps don’t “need” one as you could either use your smartphone or netbook instead, but do people “want” an iPad?

The first statistic is a simple one, but actually enlightening. After it’s initially frosty reception from consumers following the initial Apple iPad announcement (which many complained about the name itself as well) and once the dust had settled perhaps, an incredible 82% of people asked declared they believed the iPad would be a roaring success with consumers far and wide. So that begs the question, what is it that people like about it, and what do they like about Apple as a whole?
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There’s currently a lot of talking (or hype, depending on your viewpoint) surrounding 3DTV, a lot of which has come off the back of 3D movies being shown in cinemas and most notably the success that the Avatar 3D movie has had.

That particular 3D movie in itself has led to more movies being made into 3D to be shown in cinemas, even if they were originally filmed in traditional 2D, although as someone who is fairly “3D-sceptical”, it’s probably a good thing that not all of these implementations have resulted in great results. For example, many people have said that the Clash of the Titans movie in 3D, was not well done at all, so that alone might put off movie studios simply running movies through a computer to “3D-ify” it to make extra cash at the box office from higher ticket prices, hopefully, they’ll instead go to the trouble of actually filming with 3D cameras, to begin with!

I do sometimes think that the movie studios thought of 3D movies in cinemas as copy protection on their new releases, they know a lot of people will pay a premium for it and right now it’s not an experience that can be replicated by simply downloading a pirate copy to view on their small screen laptop, I wonder if that will change as the rather fast introduction of 3DTV (the next step up from the fairly recent HDTVs) gets into people’s homes?
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