Microsoft Research Asia has a new R&D project, spearheaded by engineer Jian Wang, that at first glance appears to be just another one of those ‘digital pen’ projects that digitally store your writing.

The BIC Cristal® ballpoint pen is the pen. It’s ubiquitous. You probably have a desk drawer full of them and have lost at least twice that many. When it was released in 1950, the pen was celebrated ...

It’s been five years since the Universal Stylus Initiative first launched as an effort to standardize digital pen technology with a new open standard that could be adopted by a wide range of stylus ...