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.

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[gaffermonkey.livejournal.com]

Although apparently the PC version has been out for a while.

And on further research, it has 1MB of memory. Which will store 40 pages of A5. Could you laser print the dots on the paper, do you think?

I presume the PC version is the same device - Looky here...

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Cool, so yeah, you don't need a lot of memory per page, like I thought. 40 pages of A5 is more than I get through in a month of notebook scribblings, so that'd be plenty. As for hacking the dots, interesting question. I imagine it might be more trouble that it's worth, though. Wonder how much they sell the notebooks for, separately from the pen? And if they've got some form of interesting copy protection or uniqueness built into the dots?

I'd really like to see one of these notebook pages in real life...