Long-Distance Pen Devised by Author Margaret Atwood - LiveScience.com

This is kind of cool (especially for authors who don’t like traveling).

Margaret Atwood is going to commercially produce a long-distance pen that lets authors autograph books remotely. The author and the fan communicate via video conferencing, and the author “signs” the book using a graphics tablet connected to a computer and it is reproduced at another location by a machine that is set up to directly print onto the fan’s book.

You can see a video of it in action here.