Fly Fusion Pen

My wife & I got a Fly Fusion pen to try. You write on special paper and the pen records your writing.

You can hook it up to a USB cable and import the drawing & writing. Output is an image or OCR will transform the text into a document.

In addition, the pen had a speaker and headphone jack to play music and give feedback for other functions. There is a music playing app: You draw a keyboard and can then play it with the pen. It will translate spanish writing to english speaking or vice versa. A calculator.

Your lettering needs to be block style like elementry school. I have pretty bad handwriting and decent block lettering. The OCR works well for me.

It's targeted at kids for homework and the applications are geared that way. For note taking, I think it's good for business use too. It's less obtrusive in a meeting then a laptop or especially a table computer. It's quicker then using a Palm. It captures drawings better then both. At $70 plus $8 per notebook, it's a nobrainer.