Linux-Powered Pen Calls You Out For Crappy Grammar
The Future Of Writing Courtesy LernstiftThe training wheels of penmanship. In the digital age, we have barely any use for the common pen. What good is something that doesn't even have WiFi? Luckily, a European startup is creating a "learning pen" to drag penmanship lessons into the 21st century. The Lernstift digital pen vibrates to warn you that your handwriting is becoming illegible or that you've made a grammatical error. Its goal is to help teach kids to write using instantaneous feedback. Though it has an actual ballpoint pen inside, it also recognizes writing done in the air, so it can be used on any surface or no surface at all. In case you need a virtual whiteboard, perhaps. In "Calligraphy Mode," the pen vibrates once every time you write a letter illegibly or incorrectly. In "Orthography Mode" it will vibrate once for a spelling error, twice for a...