The 10 Best Smart Pens – Immediate Analogue to Digital Forget the easy to lose Cross pens, the overpriced Waterman pens, the even more overpriced Mont Blanc writing instruments. Sure, they all feel good in your hand and leave a smooth stroke on your high bond paper, but they’re just so last century. If you’re going to spend more than £100 on a pen these days, it’s got to do more than just write. It’s got to be smart. The new luxury pens are smart pens, and it’s an emerging market, as people realise that typing on a laptop or tablet isn’t the best way to take notes. There are many of us who do our best creative thinking when we put pen to paper and scratch out a few points or sketch out our ideas. Still, we eventually want that information scanned or transcribed into a more usable digital format. Smart pens are different from the computer tablets that have been out for about 20 years. Those go directly from stylus to screen, whereas smart pens are functioning ink pens; you still get a hard copy of whatever it is you’re writing or drawing. Another big appeal of the smart pen over graphic tablets is that they feel less like a piece of equipment and more like an ordinary writing implement. The user experience is very similar to that of a regular old Bic pen. The difference is that instead of just getting a hard copy of whatever it is you’re writing or drawing, you also get a digital version. The article at http://ift.tt/1LBztE9 highlights 10 of the "best" smartpens with some pro's and con's for each. Despite that, it is still not an easy choice to make. Certainly for devices using special paper, you'd also want to check the cost and availability of those consumables before you decide what to buy.
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