Livescribe has been around for years. It was really useful in school.
I don’t want you to digitize my handwriting, I want you to convert my handwriting to text.
Having the app being the thing that makes something useful is a red flag. If the app/company dies your gadget is e-waste.
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.
The difference is, if the app were open-source someone could continue developing it.
If it’s proprietary, you’re shit out of luck.
Show a company how to sign your name… what could go wrong?
Nothing, we stopped signing credit card receipts and using cheques in the 1990s
Didn’t we?
Nothing, we stopped signing credit card receipts
Ha! The comma splice makes it looks like you’re calling someone nothing.
Just got a replacement credit card yesterday, they don’t even put signature blocks on the back anymore.
Nobody checks that these days, my signature is literally a line lmao
the neater and more consistent your handwriting, the easier time the Nuwa pen will have captur[ing] it
That’s me out then
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
And they probably use that for some sort of training data
That’s gonna be a no from me. There’s a picture halfway down of just how miserable the capture actually is.
Notebooks that do this exist. What’s so revolutionary about a pen and app?
Nothing
