A Mini Tablet Computer With A Built-In Printer
My little tablet computer, which is a Samsung Tab 2 with a seven inch screen. I use it to answer e-mails, keep a list of tasks and details of my drugs and INR results.
It does the job well, but it doesn’t handle all scenarios.
Say I was an architect working on a new house. I could make notes as I walked round the site and type them up later to give to the builder, who may not be very computer literate. But that is more hassle than I need.
Imagine though being able to write on a pad of paper, perhaps a few centimetres across, with a standard ball point pen and then give the paper copy to the builder. This is how many people work, using Post-it notes for the purpose.
Suppose though, that the pad fitted over the screen of the tablet computer and that could capture what was written as an image, so that when I got back to the office, I could download the various images to my computer for safe keeping.
In the late 1980s, I saw a demonstration of a system, where signatures were captured, that had been written by a standard ball point pen, through a thick pad of paper.
So the technology has existed for some time.
This idea has potential and all of the technology exists somewhere.
As with the double-sided credit card holder, I want one. And I want one now!
The Anonymous Widower 
Technology that works . . . last night on the Gold Coast in Queensland . . . we tested our new technology for the New Flood Mitigation {Drainage & Raised Dam Spillways PLUS AUTOMATIC REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS & PLOTTED ON COMPUTERS}.
There was over 1 Metre of Rain in the catchment area.
Along the Major Rivers & Dams, were Automatic Telementry Devices measuring the River Heights & Dam Levels . . . Changes were measured if they occurred, and were Plotted in real time, with Minor, Moderate & Major Flood lines.
I went to be know exactly that the River was steady, and likely to fall [which it did} . . . only a direct Cyclone hit would flood the Gold Coast now.
Comment by Steam Lover | January 27, 2013 |
James if you go to a sensible shop such as JL, they will have a variety of devices which will convert handwritten notes to type in the way you suggest. My dad had one, as did my daughter at one stage I think. you can also get scanning software which will convert written notes to editable word processing documents.
Comment by Liz P | January 27, 2013 |
You might also draw pictures, but the main thing is to give someone a note of what they are to do or your conversation.
Comment by AnonW | January 27, 2013 |