For this week’s giveaway, we have teamed up with Astropad to supply MacRumors readers an opportunity to win an iPad Air, an Apple Pencil 2, and two Astropad equipment. Astropad is thought for the Astropad Studio app that turns the iPad right into a drawing pill for a Mac, but additionally for the Rock Paper Pencil and Darkboard iPad Stand, each of that are good for getting extra out of Apple’s iPads.
Rock Paper Pencil is a equipment that features a textured display protector and Apple Pencil tip that mix to make writing and drawing on the iPad really feel such as you’re writing on a chunk of paper. Astropad only in the near past overhauled the Rock Paper Pencil to make it an excellent higher expertise.
The display protector makes use of NanoCling know-how so it adheres to an iPad utilizing static cling, and it may be taken off and put again on as wanted with no residue left on the iPad’s display. With NanoCling, the display protector suits proper as much as the show of the iPad to supply a flat floor with no gaps or ridges. Due to the slight friction from the feel of the display protector, there’s extra management over stroke output.
Rock Paper Pencil’s pencil tip suits on to the Apple Pencil and might maintain as much as heavy day by day use. There is a wear-resistant copper alloy core inside with a palladium coating, and it’s equal to an 0.7mm ballpoint pen for precision writing and sketching. Astropad contains two pencil ideas with the equipment, together with a protecting storage sleeve so you may tuck away the display protector while you’re not utilizing it.
Priced at $40, the Rock Paper Pencil kit works with all of Apple’s fashionable iPads, together with the iPad Air, each iPad Professional fashions, the sixth-generation iPad mini, and the Seventh-generation and later iPad.
For many who prefer to sketch and draw on their iPads, Astropad additionally makes the Darkboard Drawing Stand, a vital accent for bettering iPad ergonomics for artists. Created from a inflexible foam materials, the Darkboard can be utilized on the sofa, in mattress, or on a flat floor with out inflicting stress on the arms and wrists.
The froth materials supplies cushioning, and a polycarbonate body holds the iPad in place at any angle so you may get comfy positioning regardless of the place you are at. When you have a desk or a desk for Darkboard, it may be used vertically to show the iPad right into a mini Mac.
Astropad designed Darkboard with 1mm of area between the iPad’s show and the froth for system safety in case the Darkboard is dropped, and it leaves a cutout for the digicam and charging port so you are not shedding any performance. There’s additionally just a little pocket for storing the Apple Pencil when it is not in use, and grooved handles so it may be moved from place to position.
Priced at $100, Darkboard works with the 11-inch iPad Professional, third-generation 12.9-inch iPad Professional and later, and the ten.9-inch iPad Air.
We have now a ten.9-inch iPad Air, Darkboard, and Rock Paper Pencil equipment to disclose to one fortunate MacRumors reader. To enter to win, use the widget under and enter an e-mail tackle. E mail addresses will probably be used solely for contact functions to succeed in the winner(s) and ship the prize(s). You may earn further entries by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, subscribing to our YouTube channel, following us on Twitter, following us on Instagram, following us on Threads, or visiting the MacRumors Facebook page.
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The competition will run from right now (March 15) at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time via 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on March 22. The winner will probably be chosen randomly on or shortly after March 22 and will probably be contacted by e-mail. The winner may have 48 hours to reply and supply a transport tackle earlier than a brand new winner is chosen.
