Digital Pens: Any good ones that can be used on any surface?

[nippyjun]

Here's what I want to do. I want to write notes in a regular notebook and have the digital pen be able to remember everything I've written so that I can download the notes to my computer. As of now the logitech digital pen makes you use their notebooks or post-it notes. Is there a digital pen that does what I want?

 

[BG4533]

Bump because this seems really cool and I want one too. Seems a bit too futuristic though. Do they really exist and function well?

Brian

 

[Looney]

Not that i've seen... most require you to use their notebook, which have sensors to read the pen. I don't see how you can have a pen write without having a surface to read the strokes and movements.

 

[nippyjun]

I think that a digital pen is a really cool idea as well. I'd love to have a digital backup of handwritten notes. I saw that nokia has another version, but also uses digital paper as well. I guess they all need special paper so that the pen can "read" what you've written.

 

[Looney]

It's not the paper, it's the pad that reads it.

 

[nippyjun]

So could you put any paper on the pad and it will read it? It was my understanding that the paper itself has certain marking that allows the pen to "see" what you have written.

 

[alkemyst]

most of the time the paper is just more comfortable for a human to use....without it the pad still reads.

The digital pen that does not need a pad is possible....you just have to get the potentiometers and all that into a nice pen sized package.

 

[stonecold3169]

you guys have it wrong if you're talking about the logitech pen. The logitech pen doesn't need a special "pad" persay, it needs a special paper. The paper has micro perferations throughout it, very very small ones. When you're writing it basically connects the dots and stores that to the pen. All info is stored in the pen.

The logitech one is nice, and works AWESOME< but is huge... almost banana sized

 

[ChefJoe]

Bah, it all comes up as a graphic. I think regular old paper and a scanner would be cheaper to provide the same sort of function.... it's just not as cool and phallic.