How long has it been since you actually sat down and wrote a letter by hand? Months? Probably years? That’s how it is for most people, which is why letter writing seems to be in its last days.

We have so many other ways to communicate now: cell phones, email, IMs, text messages, Facebook, webcams, and cool new tools like Google Wave. UK cell phone subscribers sent nearly 80 billion text messages last year. Meanwhile, global email use is expected to spread to an estimated 3.2 billion people within a year.

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We like to keep up with pen news, with help from the ever-useful Google. These are a few pen-related articles that caught our interest this week.

Drunk with a pen gun – UK papers are reporting that a Manchester man has been sentenced to five years in prison for trying to sell a tiny gun that looks like a pen to someone he met on the street.

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You might remember that we mentioned the Pulse smartpen by Livescribe in an earlier post on unusual pens. This is the pen/computer that simultaneously records audio and captures handwriting and can sync the two for later recall.

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