eFun announces aPen A5 Smart Pen for all of your iPad / iPhone writing needs

eFun announces aPen A5 Smart Pen for all of your iPad / iPhone writing needs:

Want to write on your tablet without all of the requisite finger grease? How about a stylus? Too pedestrian? What about a Smart Pen? Better yet, what about the aPen A5 Smart Pen? eFun's peripheral includes a stylus and a receiver that hooks into your iPad or iPhone's 30 pin connector, digitizing your handwriting or drawings via a number of compatible apps, including the company's own free Studio Basic Light. The A5 is set, broadly, for a release some time in 2012, and should run you around $99 whenever it actually hits the market.

Gallery: eFun aPen hands-on

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eFun announces aPen A5 Smart Pen for all of your iPad / iPhone writing needs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Benchmarks clock iPhone 4S' A5 CPU at 800MHz, show major GPU upgrade over iPhone 4

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