“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 32 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “In this particular report we cover an Apple Pencil related invention. Apple’s patent only came to light in May and has already been granted.”
“The invention covers Apple bringing their new Apple Pencil to the Mac via a future version of their Magic Trackpad,” Purcher reports “The Apple Pencil is also being designed to work with in-air gestures to allow users to control presentation slides in Keynote or turn pages in Apple’s Pages or MS Office displayed on a monitor in a classroom or boardroom.”
Purcher reports, “And one more thing: Apple Pencil will work as a joystick for games, act as sword or wand and much more.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: macOS Sierra, the next-gen MacBook Pro and Magic Trackpad 3 to usher in Apple Pencil use with Mac?
Makes sense for artists for sure. It works with a MacBook size for size, but the desktop, it would be better to have the iMac fold down into a table top with a touch screen for a large canvas.
Agreed. Drawing on a vertical screen, or even using touch on a vertical screen, proved to be annoying decades ago. It’s OK for occasional stuff. But working on a vertical screen long term results in what’s called ‘Gorilla Arm’. Not ergonomic. Not a good thing. 🙁
http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html