I have a Logitech pen which uses Anoto's standard. I write on paper, then sync up and all my notes go to Word and e-mail goes to Lookout, as well as tasks and contacts.

Admittedly mine syncs via cradle, but I believe other models exist with direct Bluetooth sync.

Im sick of all these damn concepts that might, just might be possible at some point in the future but probably not until they have been superceded.

It seems that any muppet with photoshop can knock out a glossy picture of a concept that has been doing the rounds for years and pass themselves off as a designer.

My coat? Its the one with the e-paper display and haptic buttons, obviously...

How particularly ironic it is to receive a blank signing in box from The Reg on such a subject.

I have cookies enabled and this is the only computer I use and it's not available to anyone else but does it automatically sign me in each time I set the world right via The Register?

Does it Paris Hilton!

And now I have that flame off my chest, I have forgotten what i was going to say...

Ah yes...

Something trite about using the highest tech on the planet to match forests with power stations.

I'd put Paris on here but I am now a coward by default.

I keep bumping into computery people with strangely apt names. Mr Chown the sysadmin, or the technician with the initials TCP. Mr Png was clearly destined for great things.

Looks like it'll be a heap more comfortable to use than the logitech thing and I only write with fountain pens or pencil.

This seems to be the homepage

http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2008/02/11/sms-and-email-pen/

My doctor is electronically linked with the pharmacy next door. I look forward to the day when he gets one of these things so I can see the look on the pharmacist's face as he attempts to fill a prescription for 2.5 tonnes of Llama manure to be taken 4 tombs a day with foot.

I am so sick of that. Even in the linked article you fail to mention that in NOS2.x the recognition was very good for cursive and outstanding for printed writing. All you see in that article is "poor first generation" and "bulky", as if the exceptionally ergonomic hardware design was totally beyond you. It is not that the Newton has been surpassed in overall elegance and efficiency by now, and I expect a site such as El Reg to acknowledge that. This is not Engadget for Pete's sake.

Also, I thought there were like 954 different "waste both paper and battery" concepts out there already, almost all relying on special paper. What's the news?!

When we have just got used to rotten spelling and grammar, texting abbreviations like LOL, and 1337$p33k, now we have -- handwriting?

Just when most kids have abandoned handwriting, and we older folks have forgotten how to make it legible?

Next thing you know, it will be global voice-to-text without editing ability -- maybe it will understand the voice at the Help Desk!

Bad Beaver:

"Also, I thought there were like 954 different "waste both paper and battery" concepts out there already, almost all relying on special paper. What's the news?!"

No, not concepts -- real products. What's new about this one is that it *doesn't* *do* *anything*. It's a fountain pen with a weight on the end where the electronics would go.

Yes, The Register, plastic design news for the world....

Nothing to see here, read about the same thing years back by I don't know who. Tell them to invent something new, and what works.

I'm fairly sure that most of El Reg's readership can type many, many times faster than they can write.

..it will take too long to write all the > greater than signs at the edge of the page each time you reply to an e-mail...

Ha-ha! Russians have made it three years ago, see ShelPen

Work at a market research company - we were looking at using these nearly two years ago (made by logitech) and they sync'd via bluetooth.

Would've been great to replace our field interviewing paper packs which then have to be coded once mailed back to instant relay and automatic coding.

Unfortunatly at the time it was deemed to expensive. Though as mobile data costs have come down somewhat I might re-run the numbers :)

Cheers

They may have had problems intitially, but I gather the later models were issued to Doctors for case-note taking while on ward rounds. Successfully.