{"id":817,"date":"2005-03-09T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=817"},"modified":"2005-03-09T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T23:27:12","slug":"digital-pens-anoto-io2-and-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Digital Pens (Anoto, io2, and Fly)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Logitech Advanced io2 Digital Writing System<\/a> is a pen which stores the paths that you write and draw for downloading to the computer. It works with special paper that has a pattern of tiny dots that are tracked by a sensor under the nib. (See Logitech\u00c6 io\u201a\u00d1\u00a2 Digital Writing” href=”http:\/\/www.logitech.com\/index.cfm?PATH=products\/features\/digitalwriting&PAGE=products\/features\/digitalwriting&CRID=1545&REF=CRID=1545&countryid=19&languageid=1″>Logitech Products >Logitech’s Digital Writing<\/a> site.\"fly.jpg\"
\nThe underlying technology is called Anoto<\/a> and it is also being used in products like LeapFrog’s FLY pentop computer<\/a> for kids. Fly lets kids draw out a piano keyboard and then lets you play the piano by pressing the pen to the keys. A sound synthesizer plays the note.
\nSuch pen and voice systems suggest a whole new type of interface that is not screen or touch pad based. You could have a pen shaped phone where you just write the phone number down and it calls it. The trick is the paper that lets it tack its absolute position even if you raise the pen and move it. I’m sure we are going to see innovative uses for this technology that take advantage of what you can do when you don’t need a screen.
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\nThe io2 story comes from Mobilemag.com, (Tuesday September 14, 2004, by Edward Hascal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Logitech Advanced io2 Digital Writing System is a pen which stores the paths that you write and draw for downloading to the computer. It works with special paper that has a pattern of tiny dots that are tracked by a sensor under the nib. (See Logitech\u00c6 io\u201a\u00d1\u00a2 Digital Writing” href=”http:\/\/www.logitech.com\/index.cfm?PATH=products\/features\/digitalwriting&PAGE=products\/features\/digitalwriting&CRID=1545&REF=CRID=1545&countryid=19&languageid=1″>Logitech Products >Logitech’s Digital Writing … Continue reading Digital Pens (Anoto, io2, and Fly)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interface-design-and-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}