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- fruitsalad
Looking good:
Only monochrome, but still, useful for sketching / storyboards... and they say virtually unbreakable non-glass screen.
- detritus0
There was a good discussion about this on Hacker News a few weeks back, with one of the engineers pitching in to answer some of the more techie concerns.
It's a really nice looking bit of kit.. but — and perhaps I'm just cheap (I am) — the price tag's a wee bit high for a fancy paper replacement.
- it should be half the price.Gnash
- it's on sale for early orders. full price is steep, but in a couple years the price should be in a better placefruitsalad
- Waaay too expensive. Should be $150, $200 tops for the hardware and utility it appears to provide. And they better have nailed the pencil feel for that price.monNom
- I mean, this is $189 and supports photoshop:
https://www.amazon.c…monNom
- microkorg0
Looks really nice but the price IS steep and there's one major flaw .. a feature they don't have that their competitors do ...
.. handwriting recognition.
As far as I can tell the thing doesn't recognise your handwriting. This means that none of the text content is searchable.
Yes I know this is meant to be like a paper book and to find shit in your old sketchbooks you'd have to rifle through them all, but come on, this is a DIGITAL technology.To me, one of the major benefits of having something like this is that your content is searchable.
I backed the Equil Smartpen 2 on Kickstarter a few years ago and thought that it was going to change my life when it came.
It came and I was impressed. I could write on any pad or piece of paper and it would digitise it, recognise handwriting and register it as searchable content then sync with my iphone, ipad or PC next time they were together. How good does that sound? Brilliant eh?
It was for a few days, maybe a week. Then I forgot to keep taking both a pad, the pen and the attachment I had to put onto pads or paper. It just became a hassle.For something to replace pen and paper it truly has to be as good as pen and paper but also has to offer something more.
To me, that is handwriting recognition and searchability.