This Mother’s Day tribute essay was first published in 2013. Mom passed later that year. Many of you have likely read my ...

The standard pencil begins when a cedar is cut down. Ropes and gear tug it onto the bed of a truck or a rail car. Think of the countless people and skills involved in mining ore to produce steel and ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: March 30th, 1858, 156 years ago today . . . the day a Philadelphia inventor made his mark. For that was the day Hyman Lipman patented the first pencil ...

Love it or hate it, the iPad is still hands-down the best tablet for most people. The combination of gorgeous, powerful hardware and easy-to-use, reliable software just doesn't compare to any other ...

When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Since 2015, Apple has released four versions of the Apple Pencil, and they're not all interchangeable. Not ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Steve Jobs famously disliked the stylus, considering it a poor input method for his then-new iPhone. That hasn't stopped Apple from inventing and ...

Many tablets and even smartphones work with a stylus. It might be a proprietary one that comes in the box or something that you buy separately, and that's before you get into third-party options. You ...

Between the Apple Pencil , Apple Pencil 2 , Apple Pencil USB-C , and Apple Pencil Pro , iPad users have plenty of stylus options to choose from when it comes to digital note-taking and drawing. These ...