SlashNOT Review: Logitech IO S**** Pen
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday March 5, 2003 @02:50PM
from the look-ma-no-brains dept.
Matthew writes: Logitech has introduced the next scion in a storied dynasty of products aimed at luring the non-typing executive masses nearer to the glowing lights of computerization: The IO Smart pen, which ships with a tablet of “digital paper” upon which the pen can sense and record it’s position due to special watermarks in the paper. Once you’ve completed a writing session, you ddock the pen to upload its “digital ink” contents via USB to a PC.
The five disappointments:
- the pen is the size of a small banana—too large to be useful as a writing instrument, too small to be useful as a weapon.
- the pen only works on specially watermarked digital paper, which is both expensive and never just lying around when you need it.
- the character reconition is only slightly better than random character generation.
- Disposable Bics are vastly superior writing instruments.
- The software requires you to sell your soul to the .NET framework in order to function (an extra 20MB install).
Subject:Get me the red phone
It requires .NET? What, is Logitech in bed with Microsoft now? I'm pretty sure this pushes the country to orange alert.
Comment by Lavahead — March 5, 2003 @ 9:09 pm
Subject:Internet Revolution!
When are we going to get e-silverware? I mean, isn't it just totally quaint to have a completely non-digital fork?
Comment by Tyson — March 11, 2003 @ 10:59 am
Subject:What's next?
Hear about the new Logitech E-Raser?
The E-Raser remembers everything that you erase just in case you really didn't want to erase some of the stuff that you erased.
E-Raser is the same size as a chalkboard eraser and only erases a special kind of digital-pencil-graphite.
Comment by Billy — May 7, 2003 @ 11:28 am
Subject:Re: What's next?
That's a really good idea! Plus, with the chalkboard eraser form factor, there's might be enough room to pull it off.
Comment by Matthew — May 30, 2003 @ 8:45 pm