Cool New Ericsson Tool Dallas TX

Posted by : James Mathewson 6/19 ReleVentshed: Cool new Ericsson tooldek: This one could be a killer app for Bluetooth.By James Mathewson

I don't normally go gaga over a new device, especially one that isn't shipping yet. But an announcement on our site today has me drooling. The device, called the Chatpen by Ericsson, has me dreaming of the possibilities of what I will do with it when I do get my hands on one.

One thing I've always wanted to do is take notes on a standard yellow note pad and have those notes automatically transcribed and waiting for me in my word processing program when I get back to my PC. Another thing I've always wanted to do is highlight lines of text and have them instantaneously scanned and entered into a document as a means of summarizing important works I've read.

There are devices that do these things, but they are a bit bulky and too awkward for me to go out and get them. IBM has a notebook computer that has a notepad attached to it. The notepad is specially designed to capture handwriting (if you press hard enough) and turn it into ASCII text in the notebook computer. While this is a cool device for the conference room and especially for the classroom, why not just type your notes in as you go as long as you have a laptop right there? With handwriting a near lost art, most of us are better at typing than longhand anyway. And you can hook a handheld scanner onto this set-up for cutting and pasting important quotes from your rese...

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