There's something so much more personal about receiving a hand-written letter as opposed to a typed message, and the Cadmus Digital Pen aims to bring back the sentimentality of older correspondence methods by updating them with cutting-edge technologies.
Designer Fred Ingleby proposes an intelligent system by which the author can employ a classic fountain pen tip, or the more modern ballpoint pen as his choice stylus. These inky ends are designed to fit snugly into a hi-tech handle which has an Anoto optical scanner built-in, which records words as you put them to paper.
Each apparatus has an internal hard drive and a unique email address associated with it, so that once you've completed a letter, the lines that you wrote and copied with the Cadmus Digital Pen scanned will be delivered digitally redrawn to your recipient.
Optical Writing Utensils
The Cadmus Digital Pen Unites Past and Present Script
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