Compupen writing-storing pen

Pen2Net's Compupen is another entry into the "alternative input"
category. It's a pen (obviously) with an optoelectric sensor that stores what's written and transmits it via Bluetooth
(with 128-bit encryption) to a computer, where included software translates the writing to text. It takes standard ink and can write on any surface. We suppose this type of thing could be useful, but writing makes our hand cramp in a way no keyboard has ever done. That and our writing is almost illegible anyway, so the software would have its work cut out for it. Not that we couldn't see it being used with cellphones and PDAs for text messaging and data entry, but what we'd really just rather have better handwriting recognition on the device itself. That way when we lost our special pen we could still scratch stuff out with a fingernail.

[Thanks, Joakim]