El Apple Pencil has quickly become one of the iPad Pro accessories most popular and we have known for a long time that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he's looking for new ways to improve it, experimenting with quite surprising concepts on some occasions, though certainly not nearly as much as the latest one that has been discovered: a system so that he can funite on any surface, or even without it.
This would be the Apple Pencil of the future
The news comes to us through a Dutch medium, Techtastic, which has been the one who has located this surprising Apple patent. Surprisingly, it had gone unnoticed for more than half a year, something unusual considering that all the records that can give us an idea of what they are working on in Cupertino are always followed with interest and this is one of the most interesting that we have seen in a weather.
As we anticipated, the idea is to allow the Apple Pencil can completely dispense with a touch screen to function, but the system developed for it, based on sensors of strength and orientation, it allows to go much further than that and completely dispense with the need to use it on some type of surface, allowing it to work even if we move it in the air.
The first advantage of such a stylus is that, obviously, it could become universal and cease to be an exclusive to the iPad. In fact, in the patent there are drawings that show it working both with the tablet and with smartphones, laptops and PC table. This is not the only interesting possibility that opens with it, in any case, since we must think that it would also allow us draw in 3d (as in the concept that we show you above).
The news for the Apple Pencil that we expect this year
Of course, a patent cannot give us anything more than a clue of the ideas that are being worked on, and even if this particular one succeeds, we cannot even estimate how long it might take to become a reality. However, everything points to the fact that there may be new arrivals interesting in the near future of Apple Pencil.
They are not that spectacular, of course, but within their modesty they can be quite important for iPad users, because their capabilities are expected to increase considerably in the future. iPad Pro 2018: so far the Apple Pencil It has turned out to be an excellent tool for artists and designers, but its usefulness for an average user was quite limited, and it seems that those on the block want to change this by bringing it a bit closer in functionality to S Pen.
Probably the leading role in this sense would have it iOS 12 (or the corresponding update), but a long-awaited new model of the Apple Pencil and it seems like a pretty reasonable bet to forecast their arrival this year, especially if the new iPhone It comes with a larger screen, as expected, and they are also provided with support for this stylus, something that has been speculated on many occasions already.