[Sigia-l] When will you buy one?

[Karl Fast]

> BTW, there's a new pen technology, Livescribe, that has some very
> nifty features that bridge physical and digital processes of

These pens are not new. Livescribe is new, but the technology has
been around long enough that some manufacturers have discontinued
their early models.

Sony Ericsson and Logitech started selling digital pens in 2002.
They license the technology from a Swedish company called Anoto. It
has also been licensed by HP, Maxell, and Nokia. LiveScribe and the
Fly pentop are based on the same technology. All of these are
licensed from Anoto.

So five years old in commercial form, and five years before that it
was working in the lab, yet few people have encountered them. I
first heard about them late last year. There was a Wired writup in
late 2002. 

The HCI research group at Stanford has several projects using these
pens. One is a field notebook for biology reseachers. There is also
a professor at Maryland who has been using them to add paper-driven
editing capabilities to word processors.


http://hci.stanford.edu/research/
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~francois/



-- 
Karl Fast
http://www.livingskies.com/