GeekDad Review: Sensu Portable Artist Brush & Stylus for Touchscreen Devices

While the iPad is brilliant for games, watching movies and offers passable web-browsing and e-reader experiences, I always thought that one of its cooler applications was as a digital canvas. Apps like ArtRage, that replicated the entire experience ? from the canvas to tubes of paint and the brush ? were fascinating and an early showcase for the platform's capabilities. My kids (and in particular my daughter, who has an artistic bent) were taken by this capability as well and I can't stress how nice it is as a parent to get such a close approximation to the water-color painting capability quickly, without the production and mess that usually results. Along with ability to quickly e-mail results. The one thing that threw a bit of water on this experience was the idea of using your finger to represent the paint brush. Once you got past the wow factor of lifelike brush strokes and the ultra-realistic effects of blending different kinds of paint, the finger kind of killed the illusion. A stylus was better, but still not perfect. The demand was obviously there, because when the Sensu Artist Brush for iPad was unveiled on KickStarter, it quickly surpassed its production funding goal.

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