A Practical LCD Writing Tablet

An anonymous reader passes along a word about an innovative LCD writing tablet. The Boogie Board costs $30, can be written on with a stylus or a fingernail, and uses no power in the act of writing. Only erasing consumes power — from a watch battery, which lasts for 50,000 erases. The total cost per "page" comes out to only 1/15th that of steno paper. The writing surface is pressure-sensitive and "highly responsive to variable amounts of pressure," so you can make thick and thin lines.

Comments

Re:Why oh why can I not save the screen?

[ColdWetDog]

You could probably just stick it in a Xerox machine (er, I mean copier). Interesting to note that they are out of stock at Amazon. We've Slashdotted a physical object!!!!

Gaze in fear, World!

Re:Shipping kills it

[MichaelSmith]

Just spend a few days kayaking over here and pick it up with no shipping costs. Then you would only have to pay for the food & water for your trip.

You want to sea kayak the North Atlantic? I don't think even Ed Gillet would try that. Unless you tried to hug the coast and ice around the north. Should be pretty safe that way.

Of course this is the standard way for us to get to the USA now.