3 posts and columns on handwriting recognition

L.A. Stories: HipSwap Tries to Take the Creepy out of Craigslist (Video)

in Commerce on April 2 at 10:56 am PT

The mobile app-heavy service allows anyone with stuff, including boutique merchants with quirky stuff to move, to quickly snap photos of items, price them and then — presumably — sell.
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Apple NewtBook

in News on January 5, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

Now that Steve Jobs has bowed out of the annual (and possibly the last) Macworld Conference & Expo this week in San Francisco, there’s considerably less likelihood of any interesting, much less compelling, announcements from Apple at the event. Too bad in a way, because lots of folks were hoping that Apple might announce its arrival, albeit late, to the netbook party.

LiveScribe Smartpen

in D5 on May 30, 2007 at 5:10 pm PT

In a demo this afternoon, Walt and Kara got a tour of a hand-held microcomputer, the LiveScribe Smartpen. This is another in a string of attempts, Walt notes, to add a simple computer to a penlike device that records words and can pinpoint their location in the recording when the user taps the handwritten version on a sheet of paper.