This Pen Is Mightier As A Keyboard...
March 8th 2008 22:00
Yes, yes, I know. This may seem like it has nothing whatsoever to do with my blog topic. Notice the emphasis on 'may'...
...but I was totally blown away by this and although first thinking that "this can't be" and "flying cars and meals in a pill territory" and "is April Fool's Day early this year?"...2 things happened to make me rethink my initial scepticism;
1) research
2) Hello? With everything we have already...why wouldn't this be possible?
Apologies to the techies et al and yes I do realise this may be old news for you lot but when it comes to technological gadgetry, although not a neophyte, I am a neobyte
Anyway, I did a search and I can't find it on Orble. I had sent it out via mass email so some Orblers will have seen it also...just wanted to share it with everyone else...because oh. My. GOD. I want this!!
...and it has everything to do with my topic. With everyone's blog topic! Think of the possibilities...
Laptops may be gettting smaller and thinner (and how gorgeous is the new Apple MacBook Air??...pity that I only like SPC fruit... ) but they're still cumbersome and one can't take ones laptop everywhere but this... have pen will compute.
Read on.
('pr hype' and images from the email that was sent to me so unfortunately I don't know who to credit)
Introducing what I (Dusk) like to call the Penputer....
from Urban Legends:
Please note that the final two images (in the presentation) have nothing directly to do with the P-ISM.
Rather, they depict similar "projection keyboard" technologies offered by companies such as Virtual Devices and VKB, Inc.
Well...what do you think? The future of computing? Your laptop will literally be a table top, anywhere, any time! Or just ridiculous really and far too expensive?
...but does anyone remember what humongous screen plasma TVs cost when they first came out???
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Please Note:
Although I have reopened the Comments Section, I cannot guarantee that I will respond quickly/as soon as possible/ever to any comment/s left.
I very much appreciate your participation and comments but my time management skills are thwarted by the fact that there's only 24 hours in a day...
I will endeavour (ooh big word) to answer any questions/respond to comments asap. Thank you for your time.
...and Thank you for clicking this;
...but I was totally blown away by this and although first thinking that "this can't be" and "flying cars and meals in a pill territory" and "is April Fool's Day early this year?"...2 things happened to make me rethink my initial scepticism;
1) research
2) Hello? With everything we have already...why wouldn't this be possible?
Apologies to the techies et al and yes I do realise this may be old news for you lot but when it comes to technological gadgetry, although not a neophyte, I am a neobyte
Anyway, I did a search and I can't find it on Orble. I had sent it out via mass email so some Orblers will have seen it also...just wanted to share it with everyone else...because oh. My. GOD. I want this!!
...and it has everything to do with my topic. With everyone's blog topic! Think of the possibilities...
Laptops may be gettting smaller and thinner (and how gorgeous is the new Apple MacBook Air??...pity that I only like SPC fruit... ) but they're still cumbersome and one can't take ones laptop everywhere but this... have pen will compute.
Read on.
('pr hype' and images from the email that was sent to me so unfortunately I don't know who to credit)
Look closely and guess what they could be...
Looks like pens with hidden cams , right?
Nope. Wrong.
Introducing what I (Dusk) like to call the Penputer....
You've just seen the future of the Laptop. In the revolution of miniature computers, the scientists are ahead with bluetooth technology
from Urban Legends:
Can it possibly be true that your cumbersome desktop PC — keyboard, monitor, and all — may someday be replaced by a set of pen-like objects that fit neatly in your pocket?
The innovative folks at NEC Design, Ltd. in Tokyo say yes.
The email presentation you have just read is based on an experimental product called the P-ISM, described by NEC designers as a "Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package." A prototype of the system, which cost a reported $30,000 to build, was unveiled at ITU Telecom World in 2003.
The concept is outlined as follows on the NEC Design Web site:
In an interview with John Latta of Wave Report, head designer Toru Ichihashi admitted his inspiration for the P-ISM was the fanciful gadgetry in James Bond films, though the pen-style PC, he said, "is closer to reality than what appears in the 007 movies."
The innovative folks at NEC Design, Ltd. in Tokyo say yes.
The email presentation you have just read is based on an experimental product called the P-ISM, described by NEC designers as a "Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package." A prototype of the system, which cost a reported $30,000 to build, was unveiled at ITU Telecom World in 2003.
The concept is outlined as follows on the NEC Design Web site:
We have visualized the connection between the latest technology and the human, in a form of a pen. P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, virtual keyboard, a very small projector, camera scanner, and personal ID key with cashless pass function.
P-ISMs are connected with one another through short-range wireless technology. The whole set is also connected to the Internet through the cellular phone function. This personal gadget in a minimalistic pen style enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing.
P-ISMs are connected with one another through short-range wireless technology. The whole set is also connected to the Internet through the cellular phone function. This personal gadget in a minimalistic pen style enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing.
In an interview with John Latta of Wave Report, head designer Toru Ichihashi admitted his inspiration for the P-ISM was the fanciful gadgetry in James Bond films, though the pen-style PC, he said, "is closer to reality than what appears in the 007 movies."
Please note that the final two images (in the presentation) have nothing directly to do with the P-ISM.
Rather, they depict similar "projection keyboard" technologies offered by companies such as Virtual Devices and VKB, Inc.
Well...what do you think? The future of computing? Your laptop will literally be a table top, anywhere, any time! Or just ridiculous really and far too expensive?
...but does anyone remember what humongous screen plasma TVs cost when they first came out???
******************************
Please Note:
Although I have reopened the Comments Section, I cannot guarantee that I will respond quickly/as soon as possible/ever to any comment/s left.
I very much appreciate your participation and comments but my time management skills are thwarted by the fact that there's only 24 hours in a day...
I will endeavour (ooh big word) to answer any questions/respond to comments asap. Thank you for your time.
...and Thank you for clicking this;
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Comment by tlcorbin
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Comment by Ann 1
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As a lonely elderly woman who just loves communicating with sprightly younger women like your good self, I'm overwhelmed that you have opened up your comments section.
At certain times of the day or night I often think, I wish Dusk would open up her comments section. Just so I can communicate with someone in blogland who is not an utter moron. Which you are not. You are so far removed from moronic, I dont' think anyone has developed a tape measure to work out how far removed from moronic you are.
But I digress. As I often do. I often tangenticise with utter disgregard to structuralisation principles. And I want to be a blog writer! Hah! How absurd. lol.
So few people in this world realise how hard it is living (make that surviving) as an eldery woman in this dog eat cow world.
Sometime this week I will read what you wrote on this post of yours. But right now? I'm too excited to read it. Because you opened your comments section. So excuse me in my dotage and for my senility and the onset of dementia. I had planned to go to a doctor. But I forgot the appointment date. That's dementia for you. Just be grateful I'm concentrating enough on this comment and not wriiting to Jon or Charles. Okay?
Oh God I amuse myself some mornings. I haven't told anyone this, but I wish I was a lesbian. I'd marry you. Legally.
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You done well, gal, you done well, it was too good for me not to comment.
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No I want 2.
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Loved it from the moment I laid eyes on it... me thinks my kids are going to think I`m a REAL dinosaur
Ash
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Wow MacBook Air eat your heart out - not a patch on that!!! Sign me up for one when they come out. If you have a spare moment please check out my blogs
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They are lots of fun - let me know what you think
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Great find Dusk, and YAY for comments! I feel like I'm jerked to a halt when I read your posts and I have nowhere to ramble! But it is very courteous that you shut them off when you know you can't reply.
Michaelie
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...and dear-o-me, I just got a laptop organised ((laughs)) ... talking about dinosaurs... it's still about 10,000BC around my place when compared to this.
I am stuffed if I can figure out how that projection can 'register' keystrokes - unless it is projected onto a sensitive, flat rubber pad? Easy to see I am no techno?
Have to agree that it is magnificent ...and me knees would ache less.*lol*
Hope you are well,
much pyaar.
Lilla ...
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Sweet.
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Thanks for your comments, it's great to 'see' you all.
Apologies for responding to you individually within one comment but I'm trying to maximise my Orbling time...and I'm giving priority to visiting your blogs and reading your news and stories...
Thanks for understanding about my inability to respond...and then leaving comments anyway.
I certainly do not think I am busier than anyone else. I just seem to be incapable of finding the 'free' time to Orble as much as I would like.
It's not that I don't have 'free' time but that time is valued as family time.
And have a drink (coffee...or whatever
Anyway....
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Hello Raven...
It is great to see you...and yes, the possibilities are endless.
Absolutely. From the little I understand how Linux works, it absolutely would.
I really do hope this does come to fruition and doesn't just stay at concept level. We'd all be carring a pocket full of pens!
I hope you are as well as can be dear Raven...
Dusk
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Dear Ann...
There is no other reason to quote that other than the fact that it's just so quote worthy.
You...are a riot.
Dusk
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Hello katyzzz,
Surely you meant
"brilliantly aka duskily penned"...?
No "if's" about it.
Thanks for coming by, hope you are well.
Dusk
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Damo...why stop at 2 when you can have a fistful??
Good to see you buddy...thanks for coming by.
Dusk
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Hiya Ash hon...
Um...I already feel like a dinosaur! My 11yo knows more about my mobile than I do. He set up my net and videomail connections!...so yes...what seems like technological wizadry to us will be commonplace to our children when they're adults.
I'm still waiting for the flying cars!
Hope you're well hon...hugs...
Dusk
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Hiya Louie Louie...
Inspector Gadget would love this!
The inspiration for this was
You stay cool Louie...go solar power!
Dusk
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Hi Shan..
I'll check out your blogs as soon as I can. Thanks for coming by and yes...the Air just seems so heavy in comparison!
...it's still gorgeous though.
Dusk
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Hiya Michaelie sweet...
As ingenuous as this sounds...I'm still astounded at faxes and mobiles! I mean...it's just all so amazing! I love gadgetry and technology and although not the type to upgrade just because it's cool...I just love all the technology available to us.
...although I still war with the dilemna that wizadry at our fingertips makes us lazy.
...and I am sorry for closing the comments section. I did find that a bit rude but not as rude as not responding, which I have been guilty of.
I hope you're well hon.
Dusk
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Namaste Lovely Lilla...
I didn't think of that...will have to do some more research.
10,000 BC...Before Computers??
...it's funny...but I have a hard time remembering what that was like.
I do find it amusing that children just have to have mobiles now...how did we ever get along??
To think we had to write out essays in longhand!
Hope you are well LL. How's the new laptop? Just as well you didn't wait until the Penputer came out... we might be in for a long wait!
much pyaar...
Dusk
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Hi Jarrah...
It's so...Back to the Future!
Thanks for coming by...
Dusk
Comment by Optomistic Opportunism
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Optomystic Opportunism
Remember the good old days when it was called the Information Superhighway?
I also think that was around the last time we did the "U comment me? I comment U!" routine...
Have a break - do a pointless comment.
Zoooooom! Cya