Feb 18 2008Pen Turns Your Writing Into Text Mesages
The D:Scribe is a pen that digitizes your writing to send as a text message. You write whatever you want, circle the name of the recipient, and the pen sends the data to your cell phone via Bluetooth, which in turn fires off the text or email message. The current status of messages is displayed on the pen's little OLED display. I'm really digging this concept. I love writing on bar napkins and hate typing text messages, so this would be perfect for me. Of course there's no chance in hell it would be able to decipher my handwriting. It looks like cuneiform, but with more hearts above the i's and unicorn doodles mixed in.
SMS And Email Pen [yankodesign]
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Reader Comments
1. damn luddites - February 18, 2008 11:42 AM
cute. too bad it's just a concept
http://techdigest.tv/2008/02/dscribe_sms_and.html
guess until it becomes real, I'll just continue to write with a regular pen, then make paper airplanes and hope that the message gets there
2. Jumpin_J - February 18, 2008 11:57 AM
I've got a concept too. It's about a website that posts really cool stuff, but things that really exist and doesn't waste our time with stupid imaginary gizmos. Well I can dream, can't I?
3. monica - February 18, 2008 2:50 PM
And I've been tying messages to pigeons all along! I think this would be cool if it was really good at recognizing my writing and accurately transforming it to messages. It would be a lot easier to write things out than to type them on my cell. However, I'm not much of a texter so it would depend on price.
4. guate6 - February 18, 2008 4:32 PM
#2: you're an idiot.
Nice concept. It's almost like that pen-like thing you use to scan text and it digitizes it, but it's just cooler.
5. damn luddites - February 18, 2008 5:02 PM
@ guate6 - no need for name calling.
#2 had a valid concept, and is certainly allowed to idealize about a website that posts real, not conceptual, items. perhaps he should look elsewhere, and send a note when/if he finds it.
6. guate6 - February 18, 2008 8:02 PM
# Luddites: you're right. I shouldn't've gotten hot there.
7. laz - February 19, 2008 2:57 AM
is "gotten" a word?
i really like this idea - i'm not sure why, because i seldom use a pen - and i never use the scribe function on my pda - but still, it grabs me.
8. damn luddites - February 19, 2008 8:59 AM
yes, "gotten" is a word. it's the past participle of "get".
however, "shouldn't've" is not a valid contraction.
9. laz - February 19, 2008 9:09 AM
gotten
N. Amer. past participle of GET.
— USAGE The form gotten is not used in British English but is very common in North American English, though even there it is often regarded as non-standard.
10. groonk - February 19, 2008 7:45 PM
well. i need one of those.