A Pen that Records the Writer’s Emotions, being developed by Philips

The pen is undoubtedly mightier than the sword. For many of us our words are a way to vent our emotions, may it be in the form of articles, blog entries or perhaps poetries and autobiographies. But have you ever wondered how amazing would it be if your pen could actually reveal your state of mind and emotional state whilst you are using it to pen down something. Well, here it is! Philips has developed a truly amazing pen that can tell the writer’s exact emotional condition when he or she is writing something. Well this intuitive pen incorporates sensors that help in revealing the emotions, by finding physiological factors like heartbeat, blood pressure, skin temperature, and finger pressure. Further on, the pen includes a small actuator that has the ability to alter the properties of the line it traces out by changing inks and modifying the shape of the writing tip. The writer’s emotional condition if then concluded by an integrated chip that transforms the color and quality of the trace accordingly. The New Scientist magazine had a rather interesting quote by Philips: “Signatures are currently always the same, yet some documents will be signed with enthusiasm, others possibly with hesitation. Having a recording of this could be useful for historical reasons.” But all the same if you are not too keen for things to get very transparent, then you have a choice to simply change the on-off switch to “off” option to inactivate this function.