The Hand-writing mode is a sensory function allowing text messaging from hand writing.

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Mr. Spears, a young, New York-based postminimalist composer, matches the spareness of Ms. Moshiri's text with luminous, pointillistic writing for his five-piece chamber orchestra.

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We'd certainly like to see much more, including some sort of OCR software -- you know, the stuff that converts writing to editable text.

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Synaptics' chief scientist, Shawn Day, is close to releasing a phone finger touchpad for writing Mandarin characters--an easier way to key in a mobile text message (the Chinese send millions of them every day).

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Clarke, who works as a poet, playwright, editor, creative writing tutor and translator is well known in schools across the UK as a set-text poet for GCSE and A-level English.

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