Hasta La Ideas

Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost are New York-based designers who collaborate under the name Studio Neat. The partnership was borne of their first project, the Glif, already a veritable case study for Kickstarting industrial design.

The success of the Glif sufficiently sparked their entrepreneurial spirit and informed their practical know-how, so much so that Gerhardt and Provost recently announced their latest Kickstarter project, the Cosmonaut, just six months after their initial foray.

We love to sketch out quick ideas or doodle on our tablets, and using a stylus is much better than a finger for such tasks. We bought several different models currently available on the market but they all suffered the same problem: they were designed to look and feel like a pen. But why? Writing or drawing on the iPad feels nothing like using a pen or pencil. For one, tablets are ideal for low fidelity sketching. Also, it is pretty awkward to rest your palm on the screen of the device because it throws off the capacitive detection. Writing on a tablet feels like writing on a dry erase board: fast, simple, low fidelity. The perfect tablet stylus is one that feels like a dry erase marker.

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