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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. Another solution... by erick99 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...in search of a problem. I don't know what will replace pen & paper but it will be a huge paradigm shift and not just an electroninc similie of writing.

    Cheers,

    Erick

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  2. Environmentally friendly? by tajmorton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Environmentally friendly? Creating batteries, pens, and producing resistors are not environmentally friendly...I'm not sure what they really mean. Can anybody explain?

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  3. Lovely by comwiz56 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to the article: 50 pages, tiny, feels cheap, excessive batteries, can't even exit some of the menus. Overall rating = 4/10

    I think I'll pass for now, especially with the £150 (~$270)

  4. It's a caponised PDA! by argent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can get smaller, lighter, and easier to use PDAs with a better screen for that kind of money. And they can also serve as handwriting capture devices if that's what you want. If someone had shown me this gadget and asked me to guess how much it cost, I'd have been off by a factor of 10, because it looks comparable to the Palm knock-offs Royal was selling for $50 four years ago... and I'm sure you can buy equivalents for $15-$20 today.

    Yeesh. The problem here isn't that digital note taking as a problem, it's that Pegasus is charging ten times what it's worth (or, alternatively, doing ten times less than they should for the money they charge).