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Pen Aerobics - Next time you go to a meeting watch what people do with their pens! We coined this terms simply because we would go to meeting after meeting and people would do all kinds of things with the pen. From tapping on the back end of it (careful with a tablet, you could erase all sorts of things) to twirling it in their fingers to disassembling it into its component parts. And this is with regular pens! With the tablet pens that we used for the trial they were a custom pen based on the FinePoint technology so they had a battery inside of them. It was pretty common to see the pen completely apart and people contemplating where to get another battery, seeing how deftly they could put it all back together. Clicking the button repeatedly was another common activity…. If it could be done it was…



Don’t touch that pen! – One of the real secrets which are related to pen aerobics is that you never, ever want to use someone else’s pen under almost any circumstances. Oh is there too much goop in your ear? Did you get something under your finger nails? Did you have an itch you wanted to scratch? It’s just plain old gross what people will do with their regular pens and with the tablet pens it was no different. A couple of us would keep an alcohol wipe around to clean off the pen if it was ever handed to us. I’m not someone who’s over the top on germs, but if you really watched on a day in day out basis, you’d be reluctant to use a pen that wasn’t yours… Thus keep your own pen handy and life will be good…


Lora pointed this blog post out to me. It is one of the best readings I've done in a long time. It gives a good feel to how the Tablet PC was developed. If pen

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