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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:24PM (#207004)

    I always carry a pen with me (a bullet-style Fisher Space Pen), but I also always carry a Galaxy Note.
    The pen easily beats the phone in terms of usability for collaborative uses.
    The phone easily beats the pen for ease of organizing notes and annotating pictures/websites/whatever.

    A digital pen will probably never beat a real pen at being a pen, but it doesn't have to in order to be useful. Specialized tools have their uses and they don't have to replace general-purpose tools.