Originally published November 27 2005
ACECAD presents digital notepad
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
ACECAD's DigiMemo A501allows users to write with a special electronic pen, and then upload the notes and cut and paste them into Microsoft Word. The pad uses four AAA batteries that last about 100 hours.
It's a dilemma familiar to every overworked office type: finding the time to write up all those pages of notes scribbled feverishly in meetings (not to mention actioning any of the points raised).
A few technology companies have offered partial solutions, including handwriting recognition systems and text-scanning pens, and now ACECAD have put forward an answer of their own: the DigiMemo A501.
Resembling a thick clipboard with an A5-sized writing area, the concept is simple: you place a pad of paper onto the clipboard and write using a special electronic pen.
The pen has a ballpoint nib, so it feels exactly the same as writing with a Biro.
Every time you've finished writing a page, you simply turn to a new one, pressing an arrow key in the left-hand margin which creates a new digital page in the A501's internal memory.
A digital display allows you to toggle through the pages you've saved, adding to or amending what you've written, or deleting an unwanted page entirely.
Once you've finished scribbling, you simply attach the DigiMemo to your PC using the USB connection and upload the text.
You can stitch multiple pages together to create an ACECAD e-book file, saved in .dnd format.
The pages can be cut and pasted into Microsoft Word or emailed as .dnd or .jpg files, depending on the software on the recipient's computer.
The pad uses four AAA batteries which last approximately 100 hours.
The pen uses a single SR626SW (or IEC-SR66) battery, and includes two spare replacement nibs for the ballpoint.
The MyScript Notes' first attempt to convert my handwriting was a spectacular failure, though that could be more a result of my sloppy scrawl than the fault of the equipment.
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