Beautiful, but $400 is steep for a monotasker. I'd gladly let students use these in a class, though, as an alternative to notepads.

Which probably says something about the rise of keyboards and the fall of handwriting; I get that ASCII is more useful than paper, but $400 buys a lot of luxurious pens and paper.

Produces a lot of lost pens and paper in waste bins though!

Check out the fountain pen thread from last week.

Link please ? :)

Granted I’m a huge user of fountain pens and note books already :)

There you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497259

The Cherry mechanical switches are big plus on the Freewrite. AlphaSmart uses membrane switches, a deal killer for some.

Too each their own, you could argue the noise and downward force required on a cherry mechanical keyboard is a deal killer for some.

Freewrite supports at least 35 languages via configurable layouts in software: https://support.getfreewrite.com/article/27-freewrite-keyboa...