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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday July 09 2015, @10:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the where's-my-pencil dept.

From a recent issue of Wired:

Study after study shows we remember things better when we write them—our brain stores the letter-writing motion, which is much more memorable than just the mashing of a key that feels like every other key. We think in fragments, too, in shapes and colors and ideas that just don't come through on a keyboard. "Think about how many things that are built start as a drawing," Bathiche says. "Most things, right? Everything you're wearing probably started as a drawing."

You can't type out the folds of a dress, or the gentle curves of a skyscraper. Drawing with your stubby finger on a touchscreen isn't much better. Humans are tool-based creatures: Our fingers can do amazingly intricate things with a pen, a brush, or a scalpel, that we can't replicate with a mouse or the pads of our fingers. Our computers are giving back that kind of detailed control. In turn, the pen is opening up new ways of digital expression, new tools for communication, new ways to interact with our tech.

My wife's cousin's husband is a cartoonist for the New Yorker. He uses a high-end Wacom digitizer. Hasn't the problem of the high tech pen been solved?


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  • (Score: 2) by GoonDu on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:10PM

    by GoonDu (2623) on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:10PM (#206931)

    In my opinion, the problem seems to be more of accessibility problem for me. With pen and paper (and a load of it) you can pretty much sketch and write anything on it. And it's huge too (compared to a tablet). However, on the tablet, smaller spaces is a pain in the ass (although you can potentially have infinite space) and if you're like those types of people who use multi-colour pens and highlighers, writing on a tablet is going to be troublesome.

    At best, I think tablet is really good for "napkin sketches" as it's less of a hassle to make rough doodles or notes.

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:52PM

    by Marand (1081) on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:52PM (#207117) Journal

    And it's huge too (compared to a tablet). However, on the tablet, smaller spaces is a pain in the ass (although you can potentially have infinite space

    That depends entirely on the size of the tablet, and is something that can (and hopefully will) be fixed. For 10" and smaller tablets you're completely right, but I have the 12.2" galaxy note tablet that came out last year and it's about the same size as a normal piece of paper. (I believe the tablet computers Wacom started selling in the past year or so are about that size as well)

    It doesn't sound like much -- 10" vs 12" display -- but I found the difference for how easy it is to write and sketch to be massive. Hell, I think there's a potential market for even larger screens than that, though probably not more than 14" or so. Past that and you're probably really wanting a pen display on your desk instead...