Hardware makers want to standardize the stylus
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Styluses are useful for note-taking, doodling, and fine graphics work, but there's no common standard for the underlying technology, so the pens often aren't portable between devices. Fortunately, this inconvenience may be about to change. A new industry standards body, called the Universal Stylus Initiative (or USI), went public yesterday with its mission to "develop and promote an industry specification for an active stylus."
If the USI has its way, phones, tablets, and notebooks with stylus input would all share the same pen and digitizer technology, allowing consumers to buy one stylus and ...