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Which Wireless Digital Pen Should I Buy?Many of you may ask yourselves what is the point of a wireless digital pen? If you've never seen a wireless digital pen, it looks much like a regular pen. Each writing device has software that must be installed and then the flash drive picks up the signal, capturing your information, which can be transferred to your computer. Wireless digital pens have come a long way and today there are several digital pen models out there. Some models of the digital pen must have the USB cord connected to the computer and the pen. Some digital pens incorporate a microphone along with the ability to store digitally one's handwriting. Others capture the information through a receiver, or have to use special microdot paper to perform its functions. Wireless digital pens are now used by many companies and educational institutions to simplify digitizing data that is originally created in handwritten format. Examples of wireless digital pens use include medical/insurance intake forms, customer surveys, construction-site inspections or in situations where a computer/PDA might not be available. Wireless digital pens are a great tool for students, note takers, graphologists, artists, architects, and designers also. Another reason for using a wireless digital pen is that for many people, writing on paper is still faster or more practical than keyboarding. Wireless digital pens are a cheaper alternative for non-mobile workers whose jobs don't require anything more than note-taking capabilities. Why equip an employee with an $800 laptop or a $400 PDA if a $100 to $200 wireless digital pen can generate the same result? This article will review three types of digital pens, which are popular in today’s market: digital pens that function using special paper, tablet pc devices, and digital pens that work via a receiver unit. Let’s start with digital pens that require specialty paper. Two popular names that provide digital pens for use with specialty paper are Anoto and Livescribe. Anoto digital pen technology is based on a combination of a regular ink pen, a camera built into the pen, and special paper. The special paper has an almost invisible, unique dot pattern that lets an Anoto digital pen know where you are writing. As you write the camera records the actual writing as well as the dot pattern where you wrote on the paper. Using special software the data in an Anoto digital pen can then be transferred to a PC and evaluated to create a digital representation of what you wrote. The key downside is the need for special paper. Livescribe’s Pulse smartpen records your notes, but can record your audio too and sync the two together when you review everything on your PC. You can make videos of your scribbling and play them back. The downside though, like Anoto digital pen, is the need for the special Livescribe paper. They do include in the kit 100 sheets of the special paper to get you started. It also seems that there is no OCR support in the software provided to convert your handwritten notes. You also cannot use this digital pen connected directly to your PC or as a mouse. Now let’s review the tablet pc. A tablet pc or as it is sometimes called, a slate or a blade is a laptop PC, equipped with a stylus and or a touch screen. It is a computer shaped in the form of a notebook except that it has the capabilities of being written on through the use of digitizing tablet technology or a touch screen. A user can use a stylus and operate the computer without having to have a keyboard or mouse. Wacom is probably the leader in developing tablets pc devices. The company has several models and in September 2009 they introduced a fully touch enabled pen tablet in their family of Bamboo tablets offering both pen and multi-touch input capabilities. Tablets normally connect to your PC via USB and include an RF receiver for both the wireless mouse and the pen. When you use the pen, the active area defaults to Pen mode (absolute positioning), which means it maps directly to the screen. In other words, if you rest the tip of the pen on the bottom-right corner of the active area, the cursor will point to the same place on the screen. The pen features a certain level of pressure sensitivity (depending on the model used), letting you switch between different brushes and pinpoint precise areas onscreen. The pen is a bit thicker than a standard ballpoint pen, but the weight is similar. Now to cover LogiPen Notes digital pen. LogiPen NOTES is one of the latest digital pens released to market in August of 2009. The pen comes with quite a bit of advantages. Some models of the wireless digital pen must have the USB cord connected to your computer, but LogiPen NOTES has both online and offline modes. This means that the wireless digital pen device can be used both remotely offline (for example in a class room or at a sales call), or it could be connected to the computer as a pen and/or tablet input tool and mouse. Another great benefit with LogiPen NOTES digital pen is that the device uses Microsoft Ink as its primary engine making LogiPen NOTES fully compatible with MS Office applications and any standard ink enabled application. LogiPen NOTES wireless digital pen can boast being the only wireless digital pen in the market supporting two handwriting recognition mechanisms to convert your handwriting to text software, both My Script and Microsoft’s Handwriting recognition engine. This allows support in over 20 languages. LogiPen NOTES functions with any type of paper and ink refill, unlike other digital pen providers who require special paper types or ink. LogiPen NOTES is currently sold exclusively online, and is one of the more advanced digital pens in the market. To learn more about LogiPen NOTES or to purchase a device visit www.logipen.com Key Features of LogiPen NOTES Wireless Digital Pen
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