The pen can be equipped with an actual ink pen or a simple nub, and there's a battery-powered transceiver inside. Using standard, off-the-shelf microphones on a mobile device, your future phone or tablet could pick up vibrations from the pen with a radius of around 30 centimeters.
Underlying Epos software is used to convert vibration and coordinate information into text, and from there, any 'ole text app can be used to field the results. It's a fairly impressive feat, and there's some pretty obvious usage case scenarios here -- this could easily reinvent the art of note taking in class, where those who prefer to jot down reminders on paper will be able to log those same bullet points on their laptop as they scribble.
16 comments:
Looks like a very useful gadget.
oh... my... god...
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Yep. Although with increased range this could be used for more than just note taking...
that thing is sweet!
I've used a few of these types of paper to comp note taking gadgets. One of them was pretty useful.
Soon keyboards will be an outdated technology too, huh.
If this is you want you lose.... I lost.
It will make note PASSING even more fun as well!
I saw this, it seems awesome.
That's pretty neat that it uses vibrations to make the images.
so much drawing is coming
Holy shit - that's awesome.
pretty awesome. Sounds pricey though. Tablets are pretty expensive for nice ones, but cheap ones go for $80 or something.
Wow this is pretty useful technology, not only can you make notes but you can make text of anything you see on the streets (i.e. signs, advertisements) hell if the range is increased you could take a picture of a chalkboard (granted the quality was good enough)
Gimmie Gimmie!
I want!
I neeeed!
so much drawing is coming
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