Could Digital Pens Be Worth Writing Home About?

Staedtler Digital Pen 1

The challenge to develop digital pens apparently started some 25 years ago. Today there are a number on offer, some use a camera technology developed by Anoto, others have a device that tracks the pens movement across the writing surface.

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Moleskine Notebooks At The Movies

Rhian Johnson Moleskine Notebooks

I’m not really a Moleskine guy, but I am a movie guy so I perked right up when I saw a post about Star Wars on Moleskinerie, the blog of the notebook maker.

It was a recap of a brief Twitter exchange between Rian Johnson, director of the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII, and Ty Leisher, a fan and web series director.

Leisher wanted to know if Johnson wrote in Moleskines and the director responded by tweeting a picture of a bunch of dated notebooks. Presumably, they contained some Star Wars secrets fans would kill for.

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Font Like A Famous Person

Albert Einstein Font

Want to give your email messages a little bit of panache? Try typing them in the handwriting of a famous person.

Custom fonts are relatively easy to make and in demand now, so designers are taking advantage of the market by delving into the past to create unique fonts that mimic historical figures.

Available for download: Fonts that look like the writing of everyone from Sigmund Freud to Cezanne.

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