A Solution To Your Handwriting Issues... Let The Forgery Begin...

[basterma]

So you don't even have to bother with the business of cleaning nibs, swapping cartridges and all that fountain pen nonsense....

 

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/robot-imitates-your-handwriting-using-a-fountain-pen-1679656771

 

So what do people think?

[erpe]

No line variation, no ink shading and from what I see in this short clip, all the same characters are indeed the same which is something that you can only do by hand after serious practicing. Apart from that, impressive from a technological point of view but practically a bit of nonsense I would say.

For now, I would place it in the same realm as Photoshop filters to mimic analog/film photography.

[basterma]

It is a feat technologically. I wouldn't expect a market to exist for the money spent on it. Unless you are really going to market this to wedding planners and the like. You could forge wills with it though....

[ISW_Kaputnik]

"404 / Tag not found"

 

 

I assume that the link worked at the time of the original post.

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

Bad link

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

I personaly do not have any handwriting issues.

[basterma]

Can't find a link to it.

[SaintLoup]

"It was a portable affair looking like a typewriter made to reproduce with repellent perfection the hand of its owner. You supplied the inventor with numerous specimens of your penmanship, he would study the strokes and the linkage, and then turn out your individual padograph. The resulting script copied exactly the average 'tone' of your handwriting while the minor variations of each character were taken care of by the several keys serving each letter...one purchaser after another enjoyed the luxury of seeing the essence of an incomplex personality distilled by the magic of an elaborate instrument."

 

This is the second time in as many days I have made a reference to Nabokov's Bend Sinister. I think I have a problem.

[nigelg]

This may be the right (write?) link.

[Intellidepth]

Very clever. Good ad too.

 

Too bad I enjoy the human frustration of mastering the unmasterable and that I am still working on my currently unmarketable scrappy scribbling. Perhaps in a few years I might have a style worth replicating en masse!