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Digital Pens & iPhones

May 8, 2008 on 7:43 am | In Phones, Technology, General | No Comments

Vodaphone and Apple this week announced that they will work together to deliver the iPhone into Australia (and 9 other countries). As you can see by their press release, there is not a lot of information. So at this stage it is unknown as to when the iPhone will be available in Australia.
For us, that […]

Quickies - New Post-it-note

May 4, 2008 on 8:20 am | In Technology | 1 Comment

Here is an interesting use of a digital pen technology. Turning the old post-it-note into a digital format so you can store them and sort them on the computer as well as sync with Outlook for reminders etc. The quicky sticky note also includes an RFID tag so that you can locate an item - […]

World’s Biggest Compute Job Done by Pen & Paper

April 5, 2008 on 6:41 am | In Technology, FormsNow | 1 Comment

I read a very interesting article this morning from ZDNet, the article was called “World’s Biggest Compute Job … to be Done by Pen & Paper”
The premise of the article is the fact that the US Census Bureau, after 10 years, has not been able to get their hand held computing device sufficiently usable in […]

101 Uses for Digital Pen & Paper Technology

March 8, 2008 on 7:57 pm | In Technology, Products, Field Service, General | No Comments

The digital pen & paper technology is still pretty new and still has a long way to go in terms of market penetration, that’s why I always love doing a demo to someone who has not see the pens before usually rattle off a few ideas of how the digital pen could be used to […]

Anoto Dot Pattern

February 29, 2008 on 12:51 pm | In Technology, General | No Comments

The Anoto dot pattern is the real brains behind the digital pen & paper technology.
The Digital Paper technology is enabled through a proprietary `Dot Pattern’ which was developed and is owned and licensed by Anoto AB of Sweden. Your Digital paper form is created by printing a proprietary pattern of very small dots on […]

What Size Paper Should I Use for Digital Forms?

February 28, 2008 on 4:20 pm | In Technology, General | No Comments

Clients often ask what size paper can be used for printing the Anoto dot pattern for their forms. While the general answer is - any size that paper can be printed - the real answer is that we generally design and print to any standardised paper sizes.
Everyone would recognise the term A4, A3 etc - […]

Digital Pen Solution Helps Yacht Racing

February 18, 2008 on 11:27 am | In Technology, News | No Comments

Our friends over at Crendal Computing International have developed a solution for yacht racing officials using digital pen & paper technology.
The system allows officials to record the competitor number from the yachts as they make there way around markers. These are recorded on digital enabled paper by the digital pen, the data then updates directly […]

New Digital Pen Video from Destiny

February 5, 2008 on 7:36 pm | In Technology, News, Field Service, General | No Comments

Destiny Australia is about to release their new video featuring clients using their digital pen. It’s a great video that show cases the value in a digital pen solution that is achieved by most clients.
The video testimonials of all the users on the video agree on one point, that the digital pen system they have […]

New Digital Pen Web Site Now Live

January 24, 2008 on 4:52 pm | In Technology, News | No Comments

Today we are pleased to announce the release of a new informative website about digital pen technology, The Digital Pen.
We have built this site as a dedicated information center regarding digital pens. It is limited to a few pages at the moment, but over time we will continue to add relevant information to build it […]

A Note on Anoto

November 29, 2007 on 9:58 pm | In Technology, General | 1 Comment

The real technology behind the Datateq Digital Pen & Paper solution is not really the pen (although the pen is pretty cool). The real genius of the system is in the paper, or to be more precise, it’s on the paper.
The Digital Paper technology is enabled through a proprietary `Dot Pattern’ which was developed and […]

Digital Pens & iPhones

Quickies - New Post-it-note

World’s Biggest Compute Job Done by Pen & Paper

101 Uses for Digital Pen & Paper Technology

Anoto Dot Pattern

What Size Paper Should I Use for Digital Forms?

Digital Pen Solution Helps Yacht Racing

New Digital Pen Video from Destiny

New Digital Pen Web Site Now Live

A Note on Anoto

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