When detached from the PC, the small receiver unit, which has a rechargeable battery, stores whatever you write with the pen.

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After my conversation with Michele I put on my favorite music, let my mind wander sat down with pen and paper to write down my goals for next year.

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With a pen and paper, write down all the ways you are following the healing program and then the ways in which you are sticking with victimization one.

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The stylus itself has been fattened out and lengthened to three-quarters of the device's length, making it easier to write with and its end is now rubberized to give it more pen-like friction on the glass screen.

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"It was a big thick form, maybe 30 pages, which was filled in with great difficulty because I can barely write, I can't hold a pen properly, " he said.

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The cap of this pen doubles as a stylus tip, giving users the option to write with ink on paper in the iNotebook device and then quickly switch over to writing with a stylus in the app.

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The FLY, for lack of a better description, is essentially a pen-based computer for kids that lets you write stuff down on paper and then interact with your drawings.

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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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