The Surface Pen empowers artists to sketch, paint and draw anywhere – from the couch to the cafe. Pairing this agile stylus with a robust drawing app unlocks new avenues of mobile creativity.

In our brief eyes-on time with it, the display looked bright, but not too glossy, which is important, as your fingers may end up all over it. The Dell Canvas 27 includes its own onscreen control dial.

Several manufacturers of the solid surface countertops are (brand names are in parenthesis): Avonite Inc. Dupont (Corian), (800) 426-7426; Formica Corp. (Surell), (800) 524-0159; Hartson-Kennedy ...

Humans perceive the properties of a surface by interpreting visual input. When estimating gloss and lightness, it seems that neural discrimination of simple image statistics plays a large part. We ...