A portable screen that could recognise handwriting and immediately convert it into computer text (1988)

Along with a portable car battery.

It’ll never catch on

I remember when “Vo-Sarah” was big in the hospitals and now everything‘s basically done on an iPhone. It’s kind of weird though because everyone just calls each other or text there’s not really face-to-face communication anymore I miss that about the older hospitals 🏥

My first encounter with a graphic stylus tablet I could draw was the one that displays it on TV. It was pretty amazing. It does not save the artwork into memory. This is way back tech from Japan before Wacom. Nowadays, there is iPad and Pencil.

Had an a Amstrad or Sinclair pocket one in the early 90's. £50. Electronic diary. Tandy.

They had this tech for that long!?! Imagine what they have now..

In 1988, handwriting recognition was impressive because it showed how computers could one day understand and process human handwriting, a big step for technology then.

"normal joined up writing"... fast forward to 2024...

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