http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/10/the-longpen-comes-to-cheltenham/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:32:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/10/the-longpen-comes-to-cheltenham/#comment-88823 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:36:19 +0000 http://fifthestate.co.uk/2007/10/the-longpen-comes-to-cheltenham/#comment-88823 [...] Says Atwood: It is the world’s first long-distance, real-time signing and handwriting device. … In other words, the LongPen is not an Autopen, which signs your name over and over without your presence being required. Instead, the LongPen does whatever you have just done at your end, including ‘Happy Birthday Marge’ and a picture of a pussycat — making whatever marks you have just made, in the order and with the pressure you have made them. (The signature is a legal one - which LongPen has just had reconfirmed by an expert in this field.) … The LongPen is known in tech circles as a ‘disruptive technology’, which means - I’m told - that it came out of nowhere, was not anticipated, is not an enhancement of a pre-existing technology, and will radically change how things are done. Author signings are just a small part of the picture! [...] […] Says Atwood: It is the world’s first long-distance, real-time signing and handwriting device. … In other words, the LongPen is not an Autopen, which signs your name over and over without your presence being required. Instead, the LongPen does whatever you have just done at your end, including ‘Happy Birthday Marge’ and a picture of a pussycat — making whatever marks you have just made, in the order and with the pressure you have made them. (The signature is a legal one - which LongPen has just had reconfirmed by an expert in this field.) … The LongPen is known in tech circles as a ‘disruptive technology’, which means - I’m told - that it came out of nowhere, was not anticipated, is not an enhancement of a pre-existing technology, and will radically change how things are done. Author signings are just a small part of the picture! […]

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