Geeky tech

[gothick]

Just stumbled across the Pen-It. Which is a pen and pad where you can write stuff on the pad with the pen. Not particularly revolutionary, especially as we're talking a paper pad and a pen that writes with ink.

Except for the fact that the paper has a clever pattern of dots on it, and the pen can tell where it is on the page. And has a memory. And a bluetooth connection. So when you've jotted your notes down on paper when you're on the road, you can come back to your computer, wipe the pen across a special "upload now" pattern of dots on a piece of card, and whatever you've written will get uploaded to your computer as vector graphics, on an electronic copy of your notepad.

Now that's just downright funky.

Unfortunately, it's also downright expensive. Damn.

Comments

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Oh, and yes, there's memory in the pen; the idea is that you don't take anything other than the pen with you, and just upload when you get back home.

[gaffermonkey.livejournal.com]

Ah. Not sure I made that bit too clear - I was meaning that there would have to be a serious amount of memory in the pen, actually.

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Not that serious, surely? How much memory does a set of vector paths take up? Bearing in mind the micro SD card on my phone would fit easily in a pen, and that's 256Mb, that's a hell of a lot of little lines...

[gaffermonkey.livejournal.com]

see above...