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My bet: pens that both work with traditional ink and also by creating a digital copy at the same time of your notes for a seamless sync everywhere. Paper's nev
by kradeelav 4y ago
My bet: pens that both work with traditional ink and also by creating a digital copy at the same time of your notes for a seamless sync everywhere.
Paper's never going to be replaced but I have definitely wished countless times for something that could copy a paper for storage instantaneously.
(Given Wacom's technology with cintiqs, I'm actually surprised this isn't a thing already.)
- colinmhayes 4y agoThis isn't a smartphone level money maker...
- MengerSponge 4y agoLivescribe tried to launch that 15 years ago. The Rocketbook Wave tried a very different tech too. The reMarkable is probably close to what you're describing. People who use them love them, but I'm still a fan of real paper and ink.
- pklausler 4y agoIs this better than taking a photograph of a page and applying OCR? The reMarkable was supposed to replace notebooks, but I gave up on my reMarkable 2 after a month.
- jjtheblunt 4y agomay i ask why you gave up on it, having considered one also?
- colejohnson66 4y agoThe Fly[0] came out in 2005, but it requires special paper that told it where it was on the page. It even worked as an MP3 player! I had one; It was big and clunky, and didn't work well if you wrote fast (which I did). It was still a neat thing. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_(pentop_computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_(pentop_computer)
- eis 4y agoI can't see this being "the next big thing". Can't you just take a picture of your document with your phone if you want a digital copy for storage?
- goatkey 4y agoI had something called an Equil smartpen 2 that did mostly this in 2015. Now I just take notes on my iPad.
- todd3834 4y agoIs this satire? I see ads for these all the time and I can't imagine this approaches a category like smart phones.