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Smart Scrawling

Note-taking across platforms has never been easier with these hi-tech devices

Implications - Not even a decade ago, our first choice for jotting down notes was a physical notepad or notebook. With our growing dependency on computers and mobile phones today, however, digital notes are quickly overtaking handwritten notes, with engineers and designers introducing devices with the primary function of merging offline and online note-taking platforms. These gadgets make the act of recording astoundingly more convenient, effectively turning your scrawls into easily accessible digital files, and have potential applications for work, education, design and more.
Trend Themes
1. Pen-to-digital Integration - The rise of digital handwritten notes and integration devices present opportunities for innovation in smart writing tools.
2. Effortless Scanning Technology - The development of software and hardware that bring better quality and efficiency of hand-written notes transferring to digital form offer possibilities for creating new products or enhancing existing ones.
3. Cloud-based Note Management - The growing trend of storing digital notes and data in the cloud allows for creating software or hardware solutions for managing notes compilation or identifying file categories.
Industry Implications
1. Stationary Manufacturing - The handwriting-to-digital integration creates possibilities for producing smart writing tools with technological features.
2. Software Development - Improved scanning technology and cloud-based storage demand for software that allows for efficient transferring and managing of digital handwritten notes files.
3. Education Technology - The evolution of digital handwritten notes indicates a rapidly changing classroom environment that warrants the development of tools that support the practice.
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Featured Examples

Smartphone-Compatible Notebooks
Smartphone-Compatible Notebooks
Moleskine Evernote Turns Your Notes & Drawings Into Digital Form
For artists and writers looking for a tool to bridge the gap between the analog and digital worlds, the Moleskine Evernote Smart Notebook is here to help. The iconic notebook maker Moleskine has... MORE
play_circle_filledCrowdsourced Social Media Drawings
Crowdsourced Social Media Drawings
The 'Create My Tweet' Campaign Promotes the Samsung Galaxy Note
To promote the Samsung Galaxy Note, a smartphone-tablet hybrid device with an advanced 'S' pen that allows for detailed drawings and sketches, the electronics brand has teamed up with some top illustrators… MORE
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The Erascan Saves Erased Notes and Doodles to a Built-In Memory Card
The Erascan is a techie whiteboard eraser designed to save as it erases. The Erascan works like a scanner in that it copies down all of the doodles and drawings on a board and saves them to a memory card.… MORE
Real Time Scrawled Styluses
Real Time Scrawled Styluses
The Handwriting Chat Pen Enables Digital Dialog by Traditional Means
You may notice that your cursive writing is getting sloppier, the longer you go on using keyboards over pencils and paper. The Handwriting Chat Pen draws from the more intimate and long-established means… MORE
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Pen Lovers Can Digitize Notes with the Casio Paper Writer
For those who love studying from a computer but writing with a pen and paper, the Casio Paper Writer 10.1 can scan your notes on the go. Functioning on Android 4.0, the tablet, which will be... MORE
play_circle_filledIntelligent Note-Taking Devices
Intelligent Note-Taking Devices
The Sky WiFi Smartpen Automatically Sends Recordings to the Cloud
Pens and pencils are slowly becoming obsolete not only because of the accessibility of computers, smartphones and tablets, but also because of other devices like the Sky WiFi Smartpen. Although it... MORE

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