With two screens, including one used with a stylus.

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In order to write using the slate and stylus a thick piece of paper is placed face down in the slate, the stylus is used to punch out dots in the paper.

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Nearly two centuries after the invention of Braille by a blind adolescent boy, the most widely used Braille-writing tools, the slate and stylus, are quite similar to the tools used by Louis Braille himself.

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The monitor uses Infrared Optical Imaging technology providing it with accurate multi-touch capability, no matter what stylus is being used.

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The origins of the pencil date to the ancient Romans, who used to write with a device known as a stylus--a metal stick, usually lead, which was used to scratch words onto papyrus.

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Unlike most smartphones these days, the Note comes with a stylus which can be used for note-taking and sketching as well as other applications.

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Assistant, but as far as we can tell it really just seems like a regular PDA with a slightly larger touchscreen and a slightly larger virtual keyboard that's designed to be used with your fingertips rather than a stylus.

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You'll be doing this a lot because the stylus annoyingly can't be used on the capacitive buttons at the bottom of the display.

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The Note's stylus, called the S Pen, can be used instead of a finger to launch and operate apps.

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Another used a Stylophone, a metal keyboard played with a small stylus.

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