The Jamjake Active Stylus offers tilt-sensing, palm rejection, rapid USB-C charging, and a clearly visible battery life indicator in a single, affordable package. It’s a low-cost alternative to the ...

Back in the 2000s, when touchscreen devices were beginning to become a thing, it was almost compulsory to see them paired with a stylus. In fact, a stylus was considered to be an enabler rather than ...

I recently challenged the longstanding requirement among math teachers for students to “show your work.” Now it’s time to go after another common math teacher mandate: always use pencil. The reason I ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Back in 1979, the ...

From Pencils You Should Know: A History of the Ultimate Writing Utensil in 75 Anecdotes by Caroline Weaver (published by Chronicle Books 2020, all images courtesy Chronicle Books) I hadn’t thought of ...