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.

Comments

Paper.

[unicron]

What's the point of the special paper anyway? What makes it special and how does it relate to the storing digitally of what you wrote? I dont' see why regular notebook paper wouldn't suffice for writing stuff down the old school way while the pen digitally stored that information.

Gotta love marketing hype

[morcheeba]

Logitech claims this is the first true breakthrough in pen technology in 200 years, but I guess the invention of the ball-point pen in 1888 doesn't qualify. Sigh... gotta love marketing hype!!

Mod parent up, please

[donutello]

The writing pads could be made much cheaper if each page didn't have to be unique.