Gadgetory

well hey this is jake with the verge and we're taking an early look at adobe's very first venture into hardware a duo of smart tools known as Project mighty and Napoleon Adobe was quick to stress that these products are still in development and they'll almost certainly change in the future of the two the smart stylus mighty is a lot further along and as a polished design and working internals the pen is a sleek triangular shape and it fits really nicely between your fingers and thumb there's a single button on it just above the tip and like the home button on an iPhone pressing on it in different ways can do a handful of different things a single tap opens up a Spartan menu where you can swap palette and brushes and long and short taps can be used to copy and paste layers of an image you can also hop over to another person's iPhone or iPad and drop the asset there drawing is really smooth though it won't make an artist out of you there can be a little bit of lag over bluetooth but Adobe tells us they've gotten the delay down to 37 milliseconds that doesn't sound like much and in reality it isn't adobe says that mighty has about 4,000 levels of pressure sensitivity and the depending on the brush you're using the lag could be a little bit longer or shorter in practice that's about right more basic tools like a pencil appeared almost immediately on screen adobe is also toying around with different charging stands for mighty on one model power came in through a nickel plating above the Pens tip while another two little dots along the neck of the pen let it lie down and charge in a number of different stands adobe is really thinking of it as a part of designers workflow and set up and it wants to make the entire package look good well my tea already has a lot of fit and finish the Napoleon smart ruler isn't much more than prop with some neat software right now at the moment there's nothing inside of it and the icons along the top aren't even functioning buttons yet but software knows how big the ruler is and will automatically draw out parallel lines or a triangle or even a French curve depending on how you have it set there's not necessarily a practical reason to use Napoleon over digital ruler but a lot of people could enjoy using it for the same reason people at like using moleskine journals a particular sense of aesthetics and nostalgia Adobe isn't saying yet whether i'll be taking my tea and napoleon to market but it certainly put a lot more time and thought into the tools and you'd expect for a simple experiment