Wish I had this in College - Fly Fusion Pentop

[Apoptosis]

Where was this in 1999?

When you write with the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer on FLY™ Paper, everything is automatically captured and digitized. You can then upload it to your PC and convert to text. Touch your pentop computer to FLY Paper, and you can quiz yourself on history, get help with a quadratic equation, or even play your favorite MP3. And when you're ready for new software, simply connect to your PC again to purchase and download custom homework and gaming applications directly to your FLY Fusion Pentop Computer.

For $79.99 that would have saved my ass a few times for papers and whatnot... Wonder how good it works though.

[dicecca112]

cough * try to get a review sample, I'm a college student * cough

[ZhengHe]

Good question and for $79.99 it doesn't seem like it would be that bad of an investment either. Of course the cost of paper is quite expensive so that might become an issue after awhile with $7.99 per notebook. This pen seems to work with any paper you use it with so that it would be more cost effective, although the Pentop does seem to have a bit more features. Anyway good luck getting a review sample. It would be wonderful so see how effectively it works.

[bubba]

cough * try to get a review sample, I'm a college student * cough

need a cough drop

[skier]

i dont know, it seems kinda redundant to me, either write it or type it, not write it and end with it typed, besides, with my terrible handwriting, it probably couldnt convert it correctly to begin with i DEFINATELY wouldnt pay $80 for it also,i could get a number of parts for that much

[yurchie]

That's pretty cool, and useful for people who take notes professionally in college. You don't have to type it up to send it to your boss :D

[vicaphit]

The notes idea is the only reason I would have used it in college. I cant read my notes from college because I had to write so fast. The only problem is with math, I wonder if the pen recognizes all forms of math symbols.

I bet you could get everyone to pay you money to take notes for them in class, then just print multiple copies and hand them out

[Sovereign]

I just flat-out take the laptop to class. Of course, with, say, Econ courses with all the graphs and such, I still use a paper and pencil. However, with anything else that only requires taking down words, it works just fine.

[HONkUS]

I doubt it works very well, We got a brand new HP all-in-one printer, fax, scanner at my old office about 6 months ago. That with the full power of a desktop computer running an OCR engine couldn't interpret hand written text i seriously doubt a pen could do better.