Adobe has announced its first hardware initiative, the Projects Mighty and Napoleon prototypes at the Adobe Max Conference in Los Angeles. The Project Mighty stylus and Napoleon ruler have been showcased connecting to an iPad and iPhone over Bluetooth. The pen works much like existing styli, but when working alongside Napoleon, the two tools can be used to create curved and angled shapes in a way that would be difficult to do with a third-party stylus. The tools have been demonstrated working with an unreleased app, which was created by Adobe specifically the hardware.
Mighty is a stylus which can connect to the Adobe Creative Cloud membership. Adobe showed that the Mighty stylus can be used to draw on a tablet device, pull up personalized settings from within an app, save files to the owner’s Creative Cloud and recognize your identity on multiple devices.
Napoleon looks like a short ruler which can do more than just draw straight lines. It can also be used to do other things like draw perfect shapes. The stylus has a single button, and the ruler is marked with a series of shapes that can be switched between to alter how the pen is drawing. On the iPad, Napoleon displays lines on the screen which a user can trace, effectively turning the tool into a digital protractor that allows the creation of sharp, specific shapes. The pen’s input can be distinguished from human input inside the connected app, allowing users to perform gestures, such as undo, or to have their fingers act as an eraser.
The toolset is also known to be “cloud connected”. Its ability to pull in a user’s Creative Cloud content, include drawings and color swatches that they’ve uploaded to the cloud has been demonstrated by the company. Some hardware details for Project Mighty have been revealed. The pen includes a rechargeable battery, Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity, and built-in memory. These products are both still in development, and while Adobe hasn’t committed to producing them, the company certainly sounds interested in bringing the tools to market.
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http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/6/4305712/adobe-announces-first-hardware-the-project-mighty-smart-stylus
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/06/adobe-announces-projects-mighty-and-napoleon/
