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I find it funny that only one of the styles (#4) is what I would consider "handwriting". I think you'd call it "cursive"? The others are a form of "typewriting" that some of my mates developed in ...

A new brain-computer interface (BCI) can turn 'mental handwriting' – the act of imagining yourself writing on a piece of paper – into text on a screen in real time. The breakthrough system, developed ...

Scientists are exploring a number of ways for people with disabilities to communicate with their thoughts. The newest and fastest turns back to a vintage means for expressing oneself: handwriting. For ...

Two microelectrode arrays in the “hand area” of the brain measure neural activity. A recurrent neural network (RNN) then converts the signals into probabilities for each character. These probabilities ...

Researchers have, for the first time, decoded the neural signals associated with writing letters, then displayed typed versions of these letters in real time. They hope their invention could one day ...

Recently, I read the biography of my uncle K.K. Neelakantan (1923-1992), aka Induchoodan. The author, Suresh Elamon, had studied more than 150 notebooks meticulously written and illustrated with ...

In the computer age, it might seem as though proper penmanship is becoming less important with each passing day. Yet sloppy handwriting can hurt students' academic performance, from their class grades ...

A study has claimed that pupils' joined-up handwriting is deteriorating, as they learn to type on a keyboard even before putting pen to paper. Poor teaching, where vital developmental stages are being ...