With touch mice and touchpads, you have to learn new gestures, but the Touch Pen is almost as easy as using your finger.

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Users can quickly type using the on-screen keyboard and navigate through the slate's features with the highly responsive capacitive multi-touch screen, or write naturally on the screen using an electromagnetic pen, making it easy to take meeting notes, create documents and reports in Microsoft Office 2010, or browse online.

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Navigation and interaction are easy with the precision on-board pen, full-size keyboard and new five button clickpad that boasts 20 percent more surface area than traditional ThinkPad clickpads.

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Using the S Pen for simple handwriting or sketching was easy.

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Meanwhile, as Pfizer had to conduct long safety studies to deal with the lung capacity issue, insulin shots got less painful as companies like Becton, Dickinson developed less painful needles and drug firms started to market insulin in easy-to-use pre-packaged "pen" devices.

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The pen has been designed to be compact and easy to use, you just plug it into a power socket and can start drawing anything within minutes.

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But it was easy-to-use writing implements--including the pencil, pen and brush--that made mass education and literacy possible.

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The pen and receiver store and recharge in a compact case making it easy to transport Inkling between, home, office, hotel or any typical workspace.

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