Sir my seminar topic is on smartquill and i want to know about its working and information,can u plz help me?
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Lyndsay Williams from Microsoft Research's Cambridge UK lab is the inventor of the Smartquill, a pencil that can remember words used to write, and then transform them into computer text. The idea that "it would be nice to put a whole PDA-type laptop in a pen," came to the inventor while he slept. "It's the pen for the new millennium," he says. Encouraged by Nigel Ballard, a leading consultant in the mobile computing industry, Williams took his prototype to the British Telecommunications Research Lab where he was quickly hired and received money and institutional support for his project.
The prototype, called SmartQuil, has been developed by leading research laboratories in the world led by BT (formerly British Telecom) in Martlesham, east of England. It is said to be the greatest revolution in handwriting since the invention of the pen. The stylish and sleek prototype pen is different from other electronic pens on the market today where users do not have to type in a special pad to record what they write. The user can use any writing surface, such as paper, tablet, screen or even air. The SmartQuill is not all space-age, however - it contains an ink cartridge so users can see what they write on paper. Smart Quill contains sensors that record motion using the Earth's gravity system, regardless of the platform used. The pen records the information entered by the user. Your words of wisdom can also be uploaded to your PC through the "digital inkwell", while the files you may want to see in the pen are also downloaded into Smart Quill.