PaperIQ
Back in April 2001, I read a fascinating article written by Steve Silberman for Wired Magazine. It described a new technology developed by a Swedish company called Anoto. The technology allowed hand writing to be digitized by a micro-camera embedded into the tip of a pen when using paper layered with barely visible patterns. I played with an early version developed by Nokia, but the pen was too bulky to be used on a daily basis, so I decided to wait for the technology to mature a little bit more. Recently, I came across PaperIQ, a British company that integrated a pen developed by Maxell with the BlackBerry Pearl. I have been using the system for a couple of weeks now, and I am really impressed. I use it to take notes on EASYBOOK notebooks made by OXFORD, upload my notes to my BlackBerry Pearl over Bluetooth by simply tapping onto a sticker affixed on the back of the notebook, and send them via email after they got automatically converted into text by PaperIQ’s online service. Life-like copies are also made available on PaperIQ’s website in PDF format. Overall, the technology works, and the workflow is almost perfect. Really cool…
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