2 posts and columns on handwriting recognition

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.