The device – built by Atwood’s Toronto-based company Unotchit – comprises a video screen and digital writing pad at one location and a video screen and automated pen at another.
The LongPen™ allows you to be in one part of the world and sign something in a completely different part. Cutting down vastly on intercontinental travel.
Estimates are, “the device has already saved more than 40 tonnes of carbon emissions by cutting down on celebrity jet-setting.”
You can see the LongPen™ in action in both still frame and video here
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Margaret Atwood is brilliant. Thanks for bringing the LongPen to our attention April.
A lot of people think this is weird, but I think it’s actually a good idea. I mean, obviously it’s cooler to have your book signed by Atwood in person, but she can’t be everywhere at once. Sometimes I think people just have a knee-jerk negative reaction to anything Atwood does. Sigh.