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Anoto-based Pens From Logitech
flanksteak writes "Logitech has announced the IO Pen, a ball-point pen with a memory. You write stuff with the pen, then drop it in its USB cradle and your bad handwriting appears on your PC. The pen is to be released in November. How cool would this be with support for a wireless protocol?" We've run some previous stories about this - no telling how well it actually works until it's tested, though. And at $9.99/notebook, the paper is about three times as expensive as regular paper.
Just lend this pen to people anytime they need to sign something.
Viola, you've captured their signature and can forge it whenever needed...
1. Lend pen to important people
2. Blackmail and defraud
3. Profit!
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"The IO pen only works when used on location at one of Jupiter's moons"
track7.org has all kinds of interesting stuff!
You know, I can't even read my own handwriting on regular paper, what good is it going to do if i can download my my own chickenscratch?
Thats why I went to typeing in the first place.
(/local/home/curiosity)-#who -u|grep thecat|cut -c 44-49|xargs kill -9
wow... you trancended to a new level for slashdot...
you are hereby dubbed as the clue-less-slashdotter.. not only do you not read the article you dont even read the posting and start babbling about crap you make up in your head...
Excellent! you shall be remember'd as the man who had not a brain in his head....
then I went to the website and learned that unless you use windows its a paperweight. not even a heavy paperweight.
.Net in order to use the thing my desire to have one went out the window.
I didn't even bother to find out how much it was. I really liked the idea at first but upon learning that I need MS IE and
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From the FAQ: .NET framework? .NET framework is necessary for some of the functions of the Logitech io Software.
Why do I have to install the
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Oh isn't that special...
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Limekiller
Pad of "analog" paper: 50 cents Bic "stic" pen: 10 for a buck Sheet-fed scanner: $150 The ability to capture your handwriting without .NET, digital paper, Windows, or selling your soul: Priceless
eraser? ... do we have to wait for another 200 years for digital eraser for a new type of special paper?
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
why is it assumed that when new hardware comes out that the "linux geeks" will just figure out how to use it anyway, eventually. why not just create the thing with openness in mind?
its hardware. why must it be proprietary? the money for this device is in the friggin paper! not the device drivers.
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Alf! Where have you been!?
Is your neighbor hoarding pencils? Since the Prevention Of Subversion Act (2009) was passed, all pens have been required to have proper government wireless logging. Owning a pencil is illegal. Report hoarders to the police! Your house may be inspected for contraband at any time - if we catch you with illegal untapped writing materials, the penalty is incarceration as an enemy combatant in Traitor City X-ray. Remember citizen, information is the poison by which treason subverts patriotism. Eternal war for eternal peace! Heil Bush!