Unotchit

Unotchit (pronounced "You-No-Touch-It") is the name of a "gizmo" invented by Margaret Atwood which allows someone to remotely sign a book as well as interact via video and audio. It is also the name of the company founded by Atwood which is developing the information appliance.

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Atwood's company first demonstrated a prototype of the device at a November 2004 presentation in Toronto. Atwood has said in interviews that the device will be available by 2006.

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Margaret Atwood: Margaret Eleanor "Peggy" Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic, and a pioneer of Canadian women's writing. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended school at Victoria College in Toronto, where she completed her BA. She went on to graduate studies at Radcliffe Coll...

Information appliance: An information appliance (IA) is any device that can process information, signals, graphics, animation, video and audio; and can exchange such information with another IA device. Typical devices could be smartphones, smartcard, PDAs, and so on. Digital cameras, ordinary cellular phones, set-top boxe...