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Question of the Day: Does Typing Make Your Handwriting Worse?
Thanks to a first grade teacher who had a boot camp approach to handwriting, my cursive remains elegant despite the fact that I haven't written as much as a letter in at least 5 years. However, it has...
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iPhone 2.0 Firmware Will Have Handwriting Recognition, Go to Japan and China?
A blog on the Wretch.cc network (kinda like a Chinese blogspot) has screens from the Chinese version of iPhone's 2.0 firmware, detailing the new handwriting recognition. If it's real, which it seems to...
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Asus Working on Handwriting-Pad Add-on for Eee PC
While modders are busily adapting the Eee PC for touchscreen capability, it seems that Asus has been working on an official handwriting recognition add-on. Demoed at last weeks Computex show, the Asus...
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Mintpad Wireless Post-Its Good For Classroom Note-Passing, Digital-Style
Digitized Post-It-alike gizmos aren't new, but none I can think of is quite as functional as Mintpass' Mintpad. It's a web-surfing, Wi-Fi, media player with 1.3-megapixel cam, microphone and built-in...
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Windows 7 Tablet Capabilities Make Tablet PCs, and You, Smarter
Tablet PCs usually seem like a great idea until you actually use them, but the Windows 7 team has been working hard to make the platform more usable than ever— especially for students. New features for...
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Next-Gen Audi A8 Includes Handwriting Recognition, Bafflingly
Think texting while driving is dangerous? How about leaning over to the center console to scrawl "NEAREST BATHROOM!!!!!" on your car's navigation system with a stylus? Audi's next-gen A8 includes...
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The Fastest Text Input Test: Laptop, iPhone, Pen, Palm, or Newton?
In this totally unscientific but reasonably fair test, one man writes a long paragraph on several different devices (including pen and paper) to test speed. The results may surprise and anger you. The...
View ArticleComputers Are Killing the Beauty of Cursive
"These kids are losing time where they create beauty every day," Professor Christen said. "But it's hard for me to make a practical argument for it. I'm not one who's mourning it because of that; I'm...
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How the Pen Evolved from a Humble Paintbrush Into a Precise Instrument of...
Yeah, you can buy those blue Bic pens in bulk if you want—a boatload costs about as much as your morning coffee. And all pens are pretty much the same, right? Of course not. Cheapo pens are much more...
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First-Grader With No Hands Wins National Handwriting Award
This is Annie Clark. She's only seven, and sadly she was born without hands. But that doesn't seem to pose much of a problem for her, because she's just won a national penmanship award. A handwriting...
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Nobody Writes Anything Anymore, Says Study
Have any of you picked up a pen and paper to scrawl some note or jot down a quick to do list only to find your hand muscles have gone slack and your once-clear, familiar handwriting now crooked and...
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New Device Turns Eye Movement Into Handwriting
I always dreamed about being able to write or draw with no hands, using just my eyes. This new device invented by Dr. Jean Lorenceau at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris would allow me to do...
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Is Handwriting Dead?
These days, virtually all of our personal communication is performed digitally or over the phone. We type emails, compose tweets, blurt out status updates, spit out instant messages, make phone...
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This App Lets You Send Handwritten Greeting Cards Right From Your Phone
In a world of texts and emails, handwritten notes are getting rarer and rare because they require that heinous thing called "effort." Or at least they used to. A new iOS app called Inkly takes almost...
View ArticleThis Robot Can Write All the Thank You Notes You're Too Lazy To Send
It's good form to send a thank you note when given a gift, but how many of us ever really manage to find the time to do so? A New York company called Bond Gifts assumes very few of us, so it's created...
View ArticleGoogle is adding handwriting input to Gmail and Docs.
Google is adding handwriting input to Gmail and Docs. Starting today, you can use your trackpad or mouse to hand-draw characters in a variety of languages. [Gmail Blog via 9to5Google]Read more...
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Bic Is Trying To Make a Font Based on All the World's Handwriting
In yet another crushing blow to Comic Sans, pen-maker Bic is currently soliciting handwriting samples from anyone on Earth who wants to participate in its Universal Typeface Experiment. The goal is to...
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Show Us Your Handwriting
For most of us, typing supplanted the pen and pencil years ago—nowadays, anything longer than a thank you note feels odd to write on real paper. Sadly, the keyboard is taking the great, weird...
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Watching a person write calligraphy is basically therapy
This whole short, Ink by Ryan Couldrey, focuses on Tanja Tiziana and the journey of rediscovering the long lost (okay, not quite long lost but soon/almost/eventually) art of calligraphy and just...
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Wacom's New Digitizing Notebook Could Bring Me Back to Pen and Paper
I love writing stuff down. Well, I love the idea of writing stuff down. Often I abandon the actual task because keeping track and archiving written notes is a huge pain in the ass. Wacom has a new toy...
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Incredible close up video shows how a ballpoint pen works
At the very tip of a ballpoint pen is, you guessed it, a ball that rolls around and basically stains the paper with ink. Imagine if you dipped your body in paint and then rolled around white carpet,...
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Wacom's Digitizing Notebook Can Finally Convert Handwriting To Text
If you’re hesitant to give up pen and paper for all your note-taking needs, Wacom’s Bamboo Spark digitizing notebook has added another good reason to avoid a touchscreen stylus for a little while...
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Can Your Terrible Chicken Scratch Break This Handwriting Algorithm?
Photo credit: ShutterstockI’m a writer, so I’ll always have a place in my heart for the handwritten page (partially because I believe in romantic ideas about writing, but also because there is no way...
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New Software Can Perfectly Forge Handwriting
You’re probably already overly-anxious about protecting your identity online, but researchers at the University College London don’t feel that’s enough to worry about. So they’ve developed new software...
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A Typeface That Represents Average Handwriting from Around the World
What would a typeface that combines the handwriting of people all around the world look like? Something like this, it turns out. Read more...
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