People who are serious about software should make their own hardware. When that famous declaration by Alan Kay gets quoted, it’s usually in reference to ambitious computing devices such as Apple’s ...

Adobe has long dominated the business of providing software tools for creative professionals -- but it has always shied away from hardware. Today that changes with the roll-out of two new accessories ...

You might be familiar with the technology from reading a book on a Kindle. But so far, the technology behind the screen called E Ink or p-paper has proven useful mostly for displaying information.

Last year, Adobe took its first foray into the hardware world with two cutely named digital drawing devices, projects Mighty and Napoleon. The software giant is now ready to launch the fully-formed ...

Last week, we reported that Google was working on a way to draw on PDFs in Chrome OS, using a library called ‘Ink’. Now, a fun new web app called Chrome Canvas has come to light that also uses Ink, ...

“Drawing comes before reading and writing,” says Gough. “And then, at some pivotal point in your development, someone doesn’t appreciate your drawing and so you never do it again. It’s like writing an ...

Sometimes it feels like the minimalist app design movement can go a bit far. I was so torn over super-simplified iOS writing app Pop last year, that I interviewed its designer about whether he was ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...