Linux Learning Pen

[tjt7a]

This is an interesting article I found on Wired.com

Apparently there's a Kickstarter for a learning pen that helps people with their writing and spelling.

 

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/07/linux-pen/

 

I appreciate that they have a fountain pen top, but I don't think I'd ever want to use one.

 

Thoughts?

Tom

[welch]

The April, 1983 issue of "Byte" -- that great ex-magazine -- had an article on the ultimate word-processor. It had a character-insertion-point, a character-deleteion-point, a controller somewhat like the joy-stick used in many games. The character-deletion-point enabled an undo-feature otherwise found only on a programmer's editor created by Richard M. Stallman.

 

To see it, search for "Pencil".

[dcwaites]

Just think, a classroom full of kids learning basic cursive using these, and some evil teacher switches them to Copperplate...

 

I rather like the idea. There are some kids who would learn better with something like this.

[wallylynn]

"But Lernstift will have an open API so that developers can build new applications for the pen, whether that’s new dictionaries to support spell checking in different languages, or ways to use the pen to transfer drawings to Photoshop"

Nice, I can digitize my journal and notes.

[WayTooManyHobbies]

Just think of those scenes in "The Matrix" where new skills are downloaded into the protagonists...perhaps you can load a new font into your "pen".