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| What if your pen told you you were making a spelling mistake like your word processor does now? A new Kickstarter crowd funding project called 'Lernstift' wants to develop a pen that does just that. |
When you were learning to write, what if your pen told you you were making a spelling mistake like your word processor does now? A new Kickstarter crowd funding project called 'Lernstift' wants to develop a pen that does it.
Where current digital pens use optical sensors to pick up the writing movements and digitize the words or sketches for computer use. Some of them require external devices. Others only work with specialty paper.
Lernstift is different. It requires none of those. According to the developers, it's the first truly intelligent pen because all the tech and software is built-in. It can be used with apps but it doesn't depend on them.
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There are three different methods to process the sensor data for the handwriting recognition engine. Lernstift's solution is a math calculation that generates a 2D path (the usual shape of handwritten letters). Getting that clear and precise 2D path is tricky because of sensor noise and a few mathematical "problems".
The start up isn't developing the handwriting recognition itself, but is working with partners to develop the software for the pen. The engine is tried and tested on millions of tablets and smartphones around the world, but the application in the pen has its own requirements.
The team looks to have the pen released for mass production by Q1 of 2014.
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