Jim Marggraff (maker of LeapFrog) has done it again! His company Livescribe has created a new pen technology that could potentially connect paper and the digital world. Margrraff thought there was more to pen technology then having users "write" on computer screen displays with a stylus.. Livescribe used a ballpoint pen that can be used on paper imprinted with small dots. There is a camera near the pen's tip that monitors the dots as the users writes. The camera records what is being written. The pen also has two microphones to record sound and a speaker for playblack. Programs and data files can be up/down loading to and from a PC.
Marggraff estimates the cost of the pen to be $200 bucks and will be marketing to college students when it is launched this coming Fall. It will be interesting to see how well this product does in the market and how much impact it will be for students' learning and information recall. There is a concern that students are beginning to move away from the pen and paper era and into typing and texting. Although many students do carry a lap top to class to take notes, I think the majority of them don't and could benefit from such a pen. The pen would be easier to carry. I wonder how much note taking can happen a day without the ink running on e(empty).
This pen would be a more natural way to take notes. However, let's face it, we doodle and draw on our paper as well...back the question of how much ink does thing hold LOL
2 comments:
I would love a pen such as this. After seeing those white boards for the first time I thought to myself, wouldnt it be wonderful i fi could use this technology to replicate graphically that which i create with canvas and paint. I have often taken a digital photo and played with it in photoshop before continuing on with a painting (the different perspective helps a lot) but to be able to do away with my tablet (as much as i love it) and just paint my websites and logos would be bliss.
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