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Virtual clipboard
Posted 12/16/2009 by joelograsso in Hardware | Submit idea in this category
Image a kind of clipboard device. It would either have a marker board, or maybe even accommodate a real paper tablet. It also has a port for an SD card or USB flash drive, or maybe even built in storage. As you write, draw or make notes on it, everything you create could be stored on the internal memory and then transferred to other devices. It could have OCR as well, so anything you write would be converted to text.
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Posted by sarossell
12/16/2009
Great idea. But it already exists. It's called a "Digital Notepad". It runs about $150. There is also free standing pen that can be written on any surface without a pad that accomplishes the same functionality. They're called "Digital Pens" or "Digital Scribes" and cost between $50 and $80. Really cool stuff.
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Posted by sarossell
12/16/2009
Joe! It's you! I didn't realize it was you. I'll have to be more watchful of names so I don't sound so distant and impersonal in the future.
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Posted by eric
12/16/2009
The smaller ones have been done before, but what about on a larger scale. We use white boards at work, but what about if it were a digital one with a digital pen, and we can save and load sessions. That way, I could bring up something I had drawn a week ago in a new meeting today.

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sarossell (12/18/2009): We used to have a huge digital whiteboard in the conference room at EDS. It had a sensor bar and a special pen and could save an entire six foot board of drawings and notes at a time. I don't remember who made it though. It worked really well though.
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Posted by RexJB
09/16/2010
That's a good idea.
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