Tag: stylus

A wistful, witty tribute to the PalmPilot - the small device that taught us how to manage lives without lives managing us. Remembering Graffiti, HotSync, the stylus, and the wonderfully undistracted simplicity we miss.

The Newton MessagePad was a strange, brilliant, and messy ancestor of today's tablets. This piece traces how its handwriting recognition, apps, and design experiments prefigured features we now take for granted - and why it was canceled before the world was ready.