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[ziran]

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...Zi Corporation, a leading provider of intelligent interface solutions, today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Nintendo Co. Ltd. Under the agreement, Nintendo DS developers can employ Zi's Decuma handwriting recognition technology while creating software for the Nintendo DS handheld video game system.

Nintendo DS is the first handheld gaming platform to offer dual screens and touch-screen technology, similar to touch technologies found in some PDA's or smartphones. Users can interact with the Nintendo DS by using standard control buttons, a microphone or the gaming system's innovative touch screen.

"As the leading provider of handheld video game systems in the world, Nintendo has a reputation for adopting innovative technologies that improve the user's experience with its products," said Milos Djokovic, chief technical officer and chief operating officer, Zi Corporation. "With Decuma, Nintendo DS users will experience natural handwriting recognition previously only available to PDA and smartphone users. Zi continues to bring its multi-modal input products to leading mobile phones, gaming platforms and smartphones across the globe."...

i was thinking about this yesterday, and the ability to create crosswords, suduko, etc, games on the ds. this is great news and would make these kinds of games much easier to develop. iirc nintendo mentioned a suduko game is in development.

 

[Blackbird]

Numbers are less hard to identify (only 10 chars, and most look different). Didn't Nintendo already include some number-recognizing in the Brain-series?

The full alphabet is harder to do, so this license might come in handy.

 

[Juice]

Pictochat with this would own, but the application is hopefully for a suite of productivity/PDA apps. That'd make the DS an easy choice at its price.

 

[sasimirobot]

Brain Training never reads my "8"s

 

[radioheadrule83]

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i was thinking about this yesterday, and the ability to create crosswords, suduko, etc, games on the ds. this is great news and would make these kinds of games much easier to develop. iirc nintendo mentioned a suduko game is in development.

A friend of mine has been testing a sudoku game for PSP too

 

[Blackbird]

A friend of mine has been testing a sudoku game for PSP too

and there's also one for the GBA, millions for mobile phones and PC and my grandmother loves cheesecake. Your point? :-/

 

[ziran]

Pictochat with this would own, but the application is hopefully for a suite of productivity/PDA apps. That'd make the DS an easy choice at its price.

yeah, i think pda apps would be well suited to ds. also expanding brain training and having a series of educational stuff, especially for kids.

i wonder if this would be of use to plato, who iirc are adapting their english software training for ds.