QUAD – Samsung’s Pen Concept
I’m pretty excited about this pen, still under development… or at least it was one of 32 design works displayed by the graduating students of the Product Design department of SADI. The QUAD Pen has an electronic sensor in its tip that records every movement into a tiny memory chip within the body. The best part is you can write on virtually ANY surface, even the air, unlike the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer which requires special paper (the ad is a bit misleading about this).
Its important to note that these sorts of pens are unfortunately not tablets for wireless on-the-fly drawing like tablet pens. That would be truly great. The data thats stored in the chip is later transferred to your PC. It would be great if Samsung could make a pen that draws like a tablet and works on Macs too.
Ms. Wakame
Hmm. The Fly only works on PC.
Ms. Wakame
I dont know… maybe it was easier to develop tracking that could happen on a specified surface, and maybe selling the paper would be an additional source of revenue? I dont even know how the paper works and if it scribbles like a pen on it so Im just guessing here.
nathan
Having it record your drawings would be cool. It’s also a bummer to hear that the FLY doesn’t work anywhere. That’s so lame…
Why does it require special paper?
nykki
the concept is great, however, don’t you think that this is going to eliminate many jobs of business admins, transcriptists, and whatnot?