On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Dot paper (while I'm not completely sure what it is) is apparently a crucial element in utilizing the smartpen.
From what I've heard, dot paper is paper with tiny dots that the
digital pen can use to orient itself. The idea is you write stuff with the pen, and you can see what you've written (it's a normal pen), but you also create an electronic trace (thanks to the dots). Throw some OCR at that, and some storage, and it's pretty easy to do this Wikipedia app.
Question is: why would this be useful? Seems a weird use case: waste dot paper writing the name of the article I want to look up, rather than just searching for it on my smartphone...
Incidentally, as far back as 2001 I remember exchange students having pens that let you scan a printed word, and it would look up that text, and give you the definition. So it's not particularly cutting edge technology.
Steve