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Transfer Drawings from Paper to Handheld with InkLink.

"Seiko Instruments will soon release the InkLink, which transfers handwritten notes or drawings from any pad of paper to a handheld. The InkLink Data Clip is attached to the top of a pad of paper and continuously monitors the position of the InkLink pen. As the users writes on the pad, the Data Clip communicates its exact position to the handheld, which creates a drawing mirroring what's on the paper. Priced at $100, the InkLink is available from Seiko's webstore now and from retail electronics stores in about two weeks.

The InkLink is an improvement over Seiko's SmartPad, which required the handheld to be in a special carrying case fitted out with a pad and an infrared port. The InkLink can be attached to any pad of paper up to legal size.

A wire leads from the Data Clip to an infrared transceiver, which can be clipped onto the infrared port of almost any handheld and even laptops with infrared support." [PalmInfoCenter, bOing bOing]

This sounds like the Mimio, which we have at SLS. We rarely use it because it's a pain to set up and it only stores what you write as an image rather than as text. If you can't search it, it's not as valuable. When they can add accurate OCR to these things, they'll become much more valuable.

[The Shifted Librarian]
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