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Sharon posted:

> "Biomedical engineers create software to transform wobbly
> handwriting" . . . . Users of the system write on a digitizing
> tablet, and a wave form version of the handwriting is fed into a
> computer. . . .  The program then subtracts the tremor frequency,
> in effect cleaning up the handwriting.

Hello,

Since the end product ends up on the computer, why not just use the
keyboard?  Wouldn't the research money be better spent on getting
rid of tremor in the first place?  Is this an example of misplaced
technological effort -- Rube Goldberg gone hi-tech?  Or am I just
grumpy today?

Phil Tompkins
Hoboken NJ
age 61/dx 1990