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Totally Random Pen Stuff

by TonyB on January 25, 2012

• The LA Times reports that a new device expected out this summer will allow you to write with a pen on paper and transmit everything you write to your iPad in real time, exactly as it appears on paper.

The iNotebook itself really is the combination of an iPad app, the case, a transmitter/recorder and a special pen that connects with it.

How it works is that the transmitter sits above the page and watches you write with the special pen via infrared sensor and records what you write. Then through the app and a Bluetooth connection with your iPad, it shoots over your words — or doodles — in your very own hand almost simultaneously.

The downside: There’s no optical character recognition. So what you write is what you get. As a result, there may be no visual character recognition either, depending on your handwriting.

The $150 device could be useful for saving notes, phone numbers, etc. but no word yet on how well pen writes, or how well it doesn’t. Read More –>

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We’ve been picking up some new readers lately, so it seemed like a good time to give our new friends a little idea what they can find on the Tiger Pens Blog.

We’re all about ink pens here, from fountain to ballpoint, and the ways that people use them, whether for writing, office work or creating pieces of art. Occasionally, we’ll touch on notebooks and paper, but there are several excellent blogs that do it so well, we usually leave it to them (we’re looking at you, Notebook Stories, Rhodia Drive and a dozen others).

Our favorite pens are the ones that are relatively inexpensive, reliable and comfortable to use – gels and rollerballs and hybrids from Pentel, Uniball and the like. We’re also fans of novelty pens, or just about any kind of pen that is ‘different.’

In keeping with our love of pens and their uses, we run several regular features on the blog. In no particular order, they are: Read More –>

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

November 9, 2011

• We always love these little features that magazines do, peering into the working bags of random VIPs. PC World got Claire Chambers, founder and CEO of luxury lingerie maker Journelle, to share what kind of tech she deems essential to running her business. In addition to a Blackberry, iPad and MacBook Air, she also totes [...]

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

September 28, 2011

• Travelers in the U.S. frequently complain about the mauling they get from Transporation Security Administration agents while trying to board airplanes. But apparently, they sometimes do more than just grope the passengers. A TSA agent in South Florida was recently arrested for allegedly stealing a Montblanc StarWalker valued at $450 after a passenger forgot it [...]

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

July 18, 2011

• Prince William and his new wife Kate visited Canada recently and received an interesting gift from Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He gave them a 1939 special edition of Maclean’s magazine that chronicled a previous royal visit from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the prince’s great-grandparents. According to Maclean’s, that visit was the first-ever tour [...]

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Totally Random Pen Stuff

May 11, 2011

• What to do if you’re a WWI spy and need to write a secret spy message? Forego your fountain pen and whip out your handkerchief to collect the secret invisible ink ingredients hidden within, according to recently released U.S. intelligence documents. The Telegraph reports that the papers date back to 1914. One suggests that secret [...]

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Be On The Lookout for Pens!

April 1, 2010

Readers, you may have noticed that we’ve been running occasional features called “Totally Random Pen Stuff” and “Conversations About Handwriting.” Today, we introduced a new one, “Inappropriate Uses of Pens.” The purpose of these features is to bring you interesting, funny or just plain weird news about pens and handwriting. And we’d like your help. [...]

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