Pen-it Bluetooth Digital Pen

Okay, this is just plain cool. Watching MacBreak 59 I came acro the Pen-it from Hitachi Maxell. I suggest you watch the video (the segment starts about 6:35), but basically it's an ink pen with built-in Bluetooth. When you use it to write on ecial paper (which has been pre-printed with literally millio of little dots), it records your strokes for later wirele upload to your Mac. A arently the pen has a tiny camera which makes this po ible. The Pen-it NOTES a lication on the Mac then retrieves your scri les as vector data(!) which can be saved or further edited on the Mac. Of course, as Merlin Ma notes, this locks you into their paper, and they don't say exactly how much it will cost. It is also not clear whether this is compatible with A le's Inkwell technology.

Since this is a brand new product for the Mac (though a PC version has been available for a while), their we ite is rather incomplete. However, they are ru ing a ecial promotion for Macworld with a $100-off coupon, bringing the price down to $199 for the pen (and U charger), one notebook, and the software. It a ears that this is the same technology (from Anoto) behind Logitech's io2 Digital Writing System, but it's not clear at all whether the Logitech pen (which is Windows only), would actually be compatible. (If it is, three 128 page notebooks of the Logitech pen's paper sells for about $12.)