p2pnet - rss feed: Pen Power comes into its own
p2pnet.net news:- They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and the expression takes on a fascinating new meaning with Jim Marggraff’s smartpen.
Now, “When you tap on your notes, you hear what was recorded when you wrote it.”
His Livescribe paper-based computing platform - smartpen, paper, software applications, and development tools - will be available online at the end of the year for something less than $200, he promises.
How does Marggraff Pen Power work?
A pattern of tiny, almost invisible dots lets a patented dot-positioning system precisely track the smartpen’s movement on paper. Anything written or drawn is, “stored stored, recognized, and intelligently responded to by the Livescribe smartpen”.
Says Livescribe:
One of the key applications at launch for the Livescribe platform is called ‘Paper Replay,’ which allows total recall from lectures, meetings or conversations by simply tapping on your notes. When used to take notes during a discussion or lecture, the smartpen records the conversation and digitizes the handwriting, automatically synchronizing the ink and audio. By later tapping the ink, the user can replay the conversation from the exact moment the note was written. Notes and audio can also be uploaded to a PC where they can be replayed, saved, searched or sent.
Create, share, and collaborate – Other applications will use the power of the Internet to enable personal expression. Handwritten messages can be sent as emails. Animated, hand-drawn ‘movies’ can be posted and shared online. Spoken messages can be recorded, linked with written notes and emailed directly from a notepad.
Not only but also, “Write a math problem and the smartpen will interpret your writing, calculate the answer and speak it or show it on its OLED display,” says the company. “Write a word and hear or see its definition or even its translation into another language. Tap a pre-printed map, conversion table, customer survey, magazine ad, or study guide, and the smartpen instantly launches an application that enables direct user interaction.
Additional dot paper will be available at prices comparable to standard paper products.
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