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Batteries For Your Pen And Paper?

Posted by timothy on from the overwrought-and-underuseful dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We've been hearing about the paperless office for years now, but we never seem to get any nearer to that environmentally friendly nirvana. It's just too easy to jot things down on a piece of paper, far easier than using a PDA. So maybe a digital pen and paper is the answer? The people at Pegasus, inventor of the Mobile NoteTaker certainly think so. Unfortunately, the guy who reviewed the NoteTaker thinks otherwise."

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  1. Why not a PDA? by lecithin · · Score: 4, Informative

    This sums it up for me:

    "Now, as a cheap gadget this would all be perfectly acceptable. But when put within the context of its price it borders on crazy. I am all for convergence technologies, but when you consider the Mobile NoteTaker is priced at just under £150 I cannot see many takers. This is more expensive than some colour PDAs we have had in the labs and 50 per cent more than the very useable palmOne Zire 31 which can be found for less than £100. "

    I figure that if a person cannot use a PDA they are not going to be able to really use this. If you are one of those people, carry a pack of yellow-stickies.

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  2. poster forgot to RTFA by Jason1729 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The reviewer didn't say a digital pen and paper is a bad idea. All the negative comments in the article are aimed at this implementation.

    The build quality is cheap, it's big and bulky, it requires MS Office, etc.

    The reviewer seemed to like what the technology had to offer, this implementation was just junky.

    Jason
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  3. um, digital pen and paper? been done before.. by admiralfrijole · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Logitech IO pen uses a small camera and special paper with faint dots printed on it to record what you have written, then transfer them over bluetooth to your computer, phone, $DEVICE.

    its slick in principle, but clunky, large, and uses expensive paper...

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  4. Re:Paperless office... by Saeger · · Score: 3, Informative
    Trees for pencils and paper are usually grown on farms or their replacements planted immediately

    Indeed. And the dirty little secret is that paper recycling is actually WORSE for the environment than harvesting newgrowth, but nobody wants to believe that in the face of the facts (which I haven't linked to here). In fact, about the only thing worth recycling, in terms of saving both energy and environment, is aluminum. Once oil gets too expensive to extract, plastic can join that list too.

    So, if you want to *be* "earth friendly", instead of *feeling* earth-friendly, throw away everything except your cans (at least until we can recycle 100% of everything with molecular reassembly).

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