Adobe, long a maker of creative software, has finally ventured into the realm of the physical and unveiled the stylus pen and digital straightedge it teased us with last year.“We noticed that when people want to be creative, they stop using our tools and start using pen and paper,” says Michael Gough, Adobe’s VP of experience design says. “From architects to graphic designers, when creative professionals first think of an idea, they usually ditch the mouse and sketch it out by hand before honing their creation digitally. It just stimulates a different part of the brain when you’re actually drawing.”Adobe solved this problem with Ink and Slide, a stylus and straight rule that come packaged together. They work with a pair of iPad apps specifically created to take advantage of the new tools’ capabilities.
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