iPad Hacked has found another demonstration of a successful hack for the iPad.  Everyone knows the iPad is good for drawing and taking notes but wouldn’t it be great and much better if the iPad could respond to pen pressure too? Well its now possible! This new capability has been developed  by the Ten One Design engineers. This new hack turns your iPad screen  into a pressure sensitive drawing tablet.

These smart engineers have managed to make an iPad screen detect their pogo stylus pen by way of hacking the private UIKit framework of the iPad. Most graphic tablets have stylus pens that detect thousands of different pressures levels however the iPad posed some problems as it only has two levels 1 and 0. Although hard to believe the iPad’s screen actually knows the level of pressure, it is conceivable that when the stylus foam tip is pressed, its tip grows and that it is this that can be measured by the standard multi-touch detection .

One of the best features of this demo software is the Palm rejection that allows you to rest your palm, hand or fingers on your iPad display screen while you take notes or drawing without the screen responding to the pressure..

The developers are hoping Apple will open up the private software framework (although a very slow process from Apple) thus enabling this new capability to be released as a software library so that any developer anywhere can easily integrate this into their own applications.

Watch the demonstration video below to see the new software in action