Digital Pens

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Digital Pens

• rewriting the future
• Rex Santacruz MIS 304

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What is a Digital Pen?

• A battery operated writing instrument that saves
  whatever the user is writing as an image file.

LiveScribe
Nokia with Bluetooth
Logitech
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How the Pen works
Required Special paper from Anoto Each page
is laid out with a special dot pattern print out.
These dots tell the pens where exactly on the
paper theyre writing. Each of the pages are
designed differently so the pen identifies which
page you are writing on.
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How the Pen works

1. As you write normally like you would with an ink
   pen, approx. 50 digital pictures per second are
   being taken.
2. Each image saves the data as coordinates of where
   each pen stroke was taken and even the time it
   was made.
3. The images are saved in the pens memory. (For
   most pens, up to 50 pages of writing can be
   saved.)

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How the Pen works
Two ways to upload Click on a special box on
the paper, which tells the bluetooth to upload
the data through your cell phone. Or you can
connect the pen to a USB port.
The pen data will be saved according to where the
images were taken on the paper, when it was
written, the name of the writer (inputted by
user), type of paper used and number of pages
written. The data is most commonly saved as an
image file (.jpg, .gif, etc.) but it can be
converted into other files with the use of
character recognition software.
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Sources

• www.cnet.com
• www.livescribe.com
• www.anoto.com