Microsoft Research $100 Digital Slate Project: Primary Medium? Paper

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports on a Microsoft Reseach project that has a very different, low cost and low tech take on tablet computing.

A low-tech Microsoft slate for the masses

Frank McPherson and I bought use and like LiveScribe’s line of smartpens. LiveScribe’s digital pen requires paper with special microdots that its pen uses to determine X-Y positiioning. Microsoft Research’s project, however, uses ordinary writing paper on top of a digitizing surface to record position and other information.

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