leopard22
Registered Member
No, not a "fly" computer like you'd see being talked about in an old episode of the Prince of Bel Air, but a device that is encased in a pen and works via applying the pen to a special sheet of paper (fly paper of course) with sensor nodes or something like that embedded on them. It reads what you've written and transfers the message to the pen.
Right now they're just being marketed to high school kids from the look of it and they are limited in capabilities, but it's pretty amazing stuff when you think about other uses it could put to. The website is very good too -- although sometimes that one girl is annoyingly slow -- apparently with usability studies it took kids 5 minutes on average to figure out how to use the pen without being told how.
Only about $100 US .... what's the odds this is going to replace other devices for scheduling, an instant calculator, playing games, notepad, translation on the "fly", etc. on the run???
http://www.flypentop.com/view/page.home/home
Right now they're just being marketed to high school kids from the look of it and they are limited in capabilities, but it's pretty amazing stuff when you think about other uses it could put to. The website is very good too -- although sometimes that one girl is annoyingly slow -- apparently with usability studies it took kids 5 minutes on average to figure out how to use the pen without being told how.
Only about $100 US .... what's the odds this is going to replace other devices for scheduling, an instant calculator, playing games, notepad, translation on the "fly", etc. on the run???
http://www.flypentop.com/view/page.home/home