"You have to try this." Steven Bathiche, Director of Research at Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group, hands me a pen. It's a new pen, a prototype, but it's actually the screen he's excited about. In ...

Here’s a consumer-electronics riddle: What’s the opposite of the iPad? Answer: the Livescribe Echo “smartpen.” It’s as if Livescribe and Apple both looked at the old pen-and-pad combination, but ...

Even after the invention of the typewriter, many great writers stuck with longhand. Hemingway slashed out his words in pen and ink while standing at a specially made desk, and Margaret Mitchell ...

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