EPOS Technologies’ digital pen records your writing

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Have you ever been sitting around and suddenly thought of the cure for cancer, or figured out how to build the world’s largest hamburger, but you didn’t have any way to get your idea down? Sure, you could write it on a piece of paper, but what if that paper got ripped, or blown away by a strong gust of wind? Well luckily, EPOS Technologies thought about all of this and came up with a solution: a digital pen which records your movements on a piece of paper, and then saves them to a USB flash drive for later use. The two-part combo utilizes the company’s proprietary system of transmission which employs ultrasonic acoustic waves to help measure the distance and position of the pen, so apparently all you have to do is clip the flash drive to a notepad or related writing surface, and off you go. The whole wacky set-up is available for the bargain-basement price of $79, and should be available by the end of the year.

 

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Hanwang’s handwriting recognition mouse one-ups Chinese keyboard

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It’s tough enough to peck and hunt when you’ve only got 26 or so primary characters to fool around with, but trying to construct something meaningful in Chinese just has to be a tad more complex than we’d like to imagine. Hanwang’s latest mouse is looking to ease the pain suffered while penning an email with wildly elaborate characters by offering a more natural approach to keying in text, as built-in top-mounted screen accepts handwritten input via the integrated stylus (seen after the jump). As expected, users can actually write characters on the LCD rather than typing it in, presumably making things a bit easier on those who’d rather handle a writing utensil than fight with a keyboard. No word on pricing or availability just yet, but we’re still not entirely convinced a mouse-sized panel would be classified as “convenient” when trying to pen a dissertation.

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