Zi Corporation Zi Corporation, a leading provider of intelligent interface solutions, today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Nintendo, 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.

Decuma Alphabetic handwriting recognition software provides fast and natural handwriting input, enabling users to focus on the content rather than the writing. Users can closely mimic writing with pen and paper, with letters and words being written and interpreted in a natural flow, allowing for easy editing and correction.

This technology could have a lot of applications for the DS, text chatting would become easier, and a lot of nintendo games could make use of this for some extra interaction. How about writing the solution of a puzzle or your character´s name in a rpg instead of typing it.

We´ll have to wait and see how this technology is applied to the ds but i think we could see some applications similar to the ones used on Palms and smartphones wich would be really cool.