Techno-Whimper

[stevenpiziks]

Today I stopped by the electronics store to get a replacement part for a household gadget and I came across the Smartpen.  Catherine Shaffer has one, as I recall.  It's a combination pen, recording device, and computer.  You write notes on special paper, and later you can tap the notes with the pen and the pen plays back what was being said when those words were written.  The notes can also be transcribed and uploaded and emailed and so on.

The techno-geekie in me really, really wanted one.  Really, horribly, seriously wanted one.  But I reigned myself in.  I don't do enough note-taking and interviewing to justify it.  I truly don't.

But I still whimpered and drooled over it.