Gadgetory

hi this is Jeff with the verge and today we're at Panasonic's booth at CES 2013 and we're taking a look at their new electronic touch pen this is a new product for this year it works with their 1080p plasma TVs that are new coming up this year it's not backwards compatible with earlier plasmas and it doesn't work with their LED LCD TVs so let's just take a quick look at what's going on here we have an iPad connected to the TV by Wi-Fi and this is running Panasonic's swipe and share app it's available for iOS and Android no windows 8 but what it allows you to do is for example take some photos and throw them up on the TV once the content is on the television you can do all kinds of cool stuff with it so let's just bring up the palette first I have to let the tv know that I'm talking to it right now we can just bring up a palette I'm going to pick a pen let's go with this one will do I'll pick my color actually I kind of like black that's great and then we can just you know read stuff on TV we can maybe like but like a pain a bane mask on this guy something like this that kind of thing yeah and then when we're finished with the image we can drag it back down onto the tablet and that'll store it back on our device there's some other things that you can do as well there are some games tablet like games running on the television that you can interact with using the touch pen and some cool whiteboard functionality as well so Panasonic won't say exactly what technology it's using to communicate with the TV they'll just say it's proprietary and it uses bluetooth and yeah other than that we don't have too much information it's coming out later this year but there's no price or release window yet and yeah it's the electronic touch pen from Panasonic