Wacom Inkling
2011-08-31 21:45:54.299359+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
So by now you've probably seen the demo video for the Wacom Inkling, a little pen/case combo, the case clips to the top of your paper pad, the pen is a pen, the combo records your writing and drawing as vector data with pressure information.
The Wacom Inkling page doesn't go into details about how they're getting from that to the various other formats, but at $200 if I it links to Linux and SVG in any meaningful way, I'm super interested.
It's kind of like the Livescribe, Charlene has one and loves it, and Eric is enamoured of his, but this one seems more focused on capturing the vector data, which better matches things like me drawing building and woodworking plans.
See also the APen, which suffers from some bad information design on their web site.