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[–] monkeyman512 4 points 1 day ago

Livescribe has been around for years. It was really useful in school.

[–] Thekingoflorda 86 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Having the app being the thing that makes something useful is a red flag. If the app/company dies your gadget is e-waste.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Excellent point but how would you do it without an app? Even if it was Open Source and for PC it would need to be sending data to a PC to put together as a legible note. The pen itself is too underpowered to do that all on its own, the pen is just the data capturing tool. It would be a similar situation for Open Source, too, an end to development could mean an end to the devices continued usefulness.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago

The difference is, if the app were open-source someone could continue developing it.

If it's proprietary, you're shit out of luck.

[–] jordanlund 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't want you to digitize my handwriting, I want you to convert my handwriting to text.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

MS Surface with OneNote does this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

the neater and more consistent your handwriting, the easier time the Nuwa pen will have captur[ing] it

That's me out then

[–] ovalofsand 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Show a company how to sign your name... what could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing, we stopped signing credit card receipts and using cheques in the 1990s

Didn't we?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Nothing, we stopped signing credit card receipts

Ha! The comma splice makes it looks like you're calling someone nothing.

[–] jordanlund 6 points 1 day ago

Just got a replacement credit card yesterday, they don't even put signature blocks on the back anymore.

[–] cm0002 5 points 2 days ago

Nobody checks that these days, my signature is literally a line lmao

[–] ThayWizGwar 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I was gifted a Livescribe pen years ago, which paired the pen/camera with microdot paper. It also would digitize handwriting and some other basic tricks, but what I found most useful was it could record audio and sync your notes to that. Very handy for meetings when you don't get to write everything down or you needed additional context to some notes or diagrams you scribbled down. I used it for about six months but I still have it.

[–] jqubed 5 points 2 days ago

I used to love my Livescribe!

[–] spongebue 14 points 2 days ago

No machine can read my chicken scratches! Or human, for that matter. Including myself.

In all seriousness, this sounds intriguing but I couldn't tell you what I'd use it for. When I write with a pen it's usually a couple quick basic notes. Anything more involved and my typing skills are way better

[–] atrielienz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Notebooks that do this exist. What's so revolutionary about a pen and app?

https://getrocketbook.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

And they probably use that for some sort of training data

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Okay wow this one is pretty interesting.

I actually love the idea of everything I write with a specific pen being synced digitally.

[–] EvilBit 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That’s gonna be a no from me. There’s a picture halfway down of just how miserable the capture actually is.