When Amazon announced the latest generation of Kindle it included a touchscreen option in the form of the Kindle Touch, which allowed the entire unit to be smaller due to the removal of the keyboard. Beyond simple input and navigation, the touchscreen isn?t used for anything else, that is, until Puzzazz started experimenting with it.
Puzzazz is a company focused on puzzles, and they have just released Sudoku Unbound Volume 3 for Kindle that ships with handwriting recognition. As you can see in the video above, you can simply write the numbers on the screen and they instantly get converted to fill a square with the digital equivalent.
This won?t be the only game that gets handwriting recognition. Puzzazz has developed the technology under the name TouchWrite, and plans to include it as a feature in all future Kindle puzzle game releases.
At the moment, Puzzazz isn?t talking about licensing the tech, or even having Amazon pick it up as a standard feature. The fact it requires no learning from the user and ?just works? surely makes it a desirable feature for Amazon to take notice of. If it works as well as the video suggests, we might even see Amazon try to acquire Puzzazz and ship future Kindles with handwriting and a bunch of puzzle games as standard.
If you own a Kindle Touch, you can try out the handwriting recognition by purchasing Sudoku Unbound Volume 3 from the Amazon Kindle Store for $2.99. The game also works on non-touch Kindles.
Read more at GeekWire
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