As you'll see from the shots shown later on - the pen records everything written down without a problem and it looks great on screen. The technology itself is fairly simple - the receiver clips on to the top of the notepad you're working on, and it records the motions of your pen as you push down on the piece of paper. Little documentation is provided in the box apart from a quick-start sheet, however full PDF documentation is held on the USB Receiver that you can view at your leisure. You are also able to use the receiver as standard USB Storage. The device comes with a 1GB USB Receiver, which contains your notes, and the relevant software to read them and convert them in to written format automatically for you, and a pen which can take normal shop-bought pen refills. A quick look on Google's shopping page shows that the average retail price is around £75 in the UK. The first thing to note is the decent price.
Neowin has been lucky enough to secure a unit for review. There are several companies out there that have cottoned on to this fact, and have released "Digitising Pens" that record movements on a piece of paper and help you record electronic copies of your notes - and the DaneElec Z-Pen is the latest in this range of gadgets. Students who attend lectures sit with laptops in front of them instead of keeping a pen and paper because writing up the notes afterwards is a royal pain.
And you can guarantee someone else is going to want copies as well! The task of writing up those written notes is probably one of the mosted hated out there. But for those of us that sit around in meetings day in, day out, a pen and paper is absolutely essential if you want to make a decent amount of notes as to what is going on. People and businesses are moving away from using paper based products, and everything is digitised. These days, more and more gadgets are being released to try and help make life easier.
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