Inside info: the padless tablet.
Look at the Ink gesture recognition very carefully.
Think of bluetooth.
You're going to get a very neat graphics pad product, only it doesn't have a pad, just the stylus and a dock.
Minituriazation means that a sharpie (white board marker) sized pen will contain all the neccessary battery and hardware to understand it's relative position and orientation and communicate that to a bluetooth node.
Tap to start/center, move it around and your cursor follows. Click to write, tap to click, flip to erase. Trace paper on your desk or on a book, use it beside your laptop in the library, or on any relatively flat surface. Charges via a USB/keyboard dock.
OK, OK, so it's from the inside of my head, but it's a cool idea anyway,
or is it...
A cool idea, or inside info?
Think of bluetooth.
You're going to get a very neat graphics pad product, only it doesn't have a pad, just the stylus and a dock.
Minituriazation means that a sharpie (white board marker) sized pen will contain all the neccessary battery and hardware to understand it's relative position and orientation and communicate that to a bluetooth node.
Tap to start/center, move it around and your cursor follows. Click to write, tap to click, flip to erase. Trace paper on your desk or on a book, use it beside your laptop in the library, or on any relatively flat surface. Charges via a USB/keyboard dock.
OK, OK, so it's from the inside of my head, but it's a cool idea anyway,
or is it...
A cool idea, or inside info?
Comments
The main sticking point came about with the tracking technology. The prototype pens would quite often be upwards of 20 ft off of their real location by the time the pen tip traveled 10 inches (the height of a pad of paper).
But... solve that and anything is possible, I suppose.
<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.04/anoto.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.04/anoto.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=</a>
Later Steve
You can buy it TODAY.
They invented Bluetooth.
The SonyEricsson "Chatpen" which was released almost exclusively to piss off Nokia.
... <a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?page=gis&Redir=template=PS1&B=ie&C ID%3D104%26PID%3D9753%26LM%3DPSM_V" target="_blank">Here's a fairly Mac-unfriendly URL</a>
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Personally I really love the idea of a blue tooth pen that writes on any surface. Its a really freaking cool idea. I would buy a new mac just for the pen
I'd probably buy one anyways if Apple made one though
Pres
I think MWNY will see the iMagikStick.
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
By the way, I think something is coming so they preview a tool to let us drool.
What, you haven't noticed how large the trackpad area is now? Unless you have giant man hands its quite large.
Now how will that work?
Ryan Meader got home from his job at the movie theatre and must have read my comment about the trackpad area of the iBook and TiBook being large enough for use as a writing area, if Apple only included a stylus. That exact concept is now on MacOSRumors.com.
Whee! He may really have "inside" contacts, but sometimes he really just scans message boards and collates that info into rumor fodder.
And he really had a photo of the iMac before its intro too. And he knows where Elvis is where he is using the Apple PDA Steve Jobs refuses to release because of his total hatred of Sculley of course!
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Please oh please Apple, take this idea and Macify it!!! Though, I have to admit that IBM did a pretty good job the first time around. Check out the review and all of the features from this Pen Computing <a href="http://www.pencomputing.com/frames/ibm_transnote.html" target="_blank">article</a>.
THE PEN!!
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<strong>Hum.... Lets see. $3000 for a 600 mhz P3, with no optical or magnetic drive, and a 2.5 hr battery life. Sounds just like something IBM would make. The article there even says that it just didn't sell. Apple did so something like this. The iBook. Jotting notes doesn't happen THAT much that people need the hand writing recognition. This IS a novel idea though....the flip and fold is kinda cool.</strong><hr></blockquote>
iBook X Vadem Clio/Sharp Tripad X eMate = Stylus iBook that is capable of transforming from notebook, to presentation mode, and to tablet mode.
Anyway. Concept like the Sony/Ericsson's Chatpen and OTM Techology's VPen is quite a good idea, I suspect we will be seeing more of this kind of smart pen.
I'm sure it will be a simple pen, not like the Ericsson one which has too many features and is too bulky.
<strong>Hint: Apple is licensing technology from a company called Anoto to make their magic pen.
I'm sure it will be a simple pen, not like the Ericsson one which has too many features and is too bulky.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Let's hope this ISN'T true. The Anoto stuff requires special paper. That is a crap solution. If it can't be used on any surface, you might as well just have a special pad.