- Hi, I'm Parris,
trying out a very interesting gadget today.
this is the Smart Pen,
it's a pen that allows you to connect via Bluetooth
to your phone, to your tablet,
and whatever you're writing in ink on paper with this pen
will appear on your digital device.
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- Thanks to the people at Mimoto
for sending me out a Smart Pen to try out,
this is a Kickstarter project,
which means they aren't producing these yet
for you to buy in the store,
but if you go over to their Kickstarter site,
and I'll put a link right down below this video,
if you want to, you can help fund their Kickstarter program
and you'll be one of the first people
to get one of these pens for under $100.
Thank you to the people at Mimoto for sending me out
one of their Kickstarter demo models to try out.
This is the Smart Pen,
look a lot like an ordinary pen,
feels about as heavy as that.
This will let you interact,
just by writing on a piece of paper
with your phone or tablet via this clip,
this does the actual Bluetooth transmitting of data,
you clip this onto the notepad
or the paper that you're working on,
and this picks up the signals from the pen,
transmits them to your phone,
you'll have an app there that will then
convert them into digital writing, digital pictures.
And with the pictures, you can email them to a friend,
you can print them out,
and for the handwritten text, you can have that digitized
so you can now use it in a Word document.
Also in the box comes a carrying case
for both the pen and the clip
and the rest of your pieces here.
This is the USB cable you can use to charge the device up
and hook it up to your computer.
This I think is an extraction tool,
it sounds vaguely dental,
but it actually goes with these replacement refills.
These are what actually provide the ink
for you to write on the paper and see what you're writing.
And this is a USB extender cable,
I guess to give you more distance to plug everything in,
and the instructions,
which have English instructions in the back.
So, I've installed the software on this phone,
the app works just fine,
the pen is charged up as is the other device,
so we're going to get them coordinated now,
and Roxanna, who's very good at drawing, unlike myself,
is going to draw a picture on a piece of paper
and we will see how it looks on the phone
as she is drawing it.
It is connected.
Now, here we're at a screen,
where whatever this senses the pen writing
will appear on the screen.
You do need to take this and clip it onto the paper
that you're working with,
will you help me out with that, Roxanna?
It clips like this, so if you'd lift the paper up,
a single page is fine.
Alright, set it down.
Now, take the pen,
and anywhere on that sized piece of paper, I believe,
you should be able to draw,
and let's see what happens.
Make it big.
Now you notice, immediately,
as Roxanna is drawing here,
we're seeing it appear on the screen.
What do you think of that?
- It's pretty magical.
(Parris laughs)
- [Parris] Okay, go ahead and draw some more
and write a few words.
- [Roxanna] Okay.
Let's see.
Let's draw Pierre.
- [Parris] Our dog.
- [Roxanna] It's a really terrible version.
- [Parris] I was thinking you were drawing his profile,
and I was really wondering, but okay that's his head.
- [Roxanna] And then, because we can never see his eyes,
they're always hidden under the fur.
- [Parris] Right.
- [Roxanna] This doesn't look like Pierre.
- [Parris] We're the only ones that know that,
that's okay.
(Roxanna laughs)
- [Roxanna] I don't remember what that, okay.
Tada! - Okay, and then,
- [Parris] Write his name down at the bottom,
print it. - Here?
- [Parris] At the bottom.
- [Roxanna] Here?
- [Parris] Yeah, all the way at the bottom.
Big letters.
Okay, make a big heart or something over in the space here.
Roxanna is gonna poke around and see
what some of these things do, go ahead.
- [Roxanna] Okay.
- [Parris] Different colors, huh?
- Sweet. - Now, the ink on the paper
- [Parris] is still gonna be the same color.
- [Roxanna] Yeah.
- [Parris] But we should get a different color,
ah, there we go on the screen, very nice.
- [Roxanna] Color in the strawberry,
and the heart.
- [Parris] Now, you have a tablet with a stylus, right?
- [Roxanna] Mm-hmm.
- [Parris] That you use for drawing,
but now you see with this pen,
any device you have that has Bluetooth,
any phone or tablet can be used.
We're gonna save this file,
call it Pierre,
almost Pierre.
So we now have that saved, we can email that to people,
you can hook it up to your printer,
you can print that out when you get home,
make exact duplicates of what you have.
What do you think of this pen?
- I think it's kinda crazy cool, in all honesty.
Personally, for me,
writing on an actual piece of paper is really important,
plus, I can change the colors and everything,
and for little parts of it and stuff,
while I was doing stuff, again,
I could see exactly on the pen, so I could literally,
Sorry, my hand.
- [Parris] You can draw under your hand
and see what you're doing is what you're saying,
'cause you look on the phone, is that what you're saying?
- [Roxanna] Yeah, I can draw stuff and everything,
just looking at the phone,
because it shows a little thing right there,
and it's immediate.
- [Parris] Ordinarily, it's hard to know
what's right under your hand when you're drawing, right,
to see where you're putting it.
Good points, thank you.
So, Roxanna and I were very impressed with the Smart Pen.
They have a Kickstarter going right now,
so you can get this for under $100
if you head over and are one of their early supporters,
again, we have a link to that down below this video.
In the app, there were additional features,
so you can draw lines and circles,
looks like you can import images as well to draw on them,
lots of features.
And then with the text,
there's another piece of software that they'll include
when these are in production,
that will do the optical character recognition
that will basically read your writing
and then put that into a digital typed format
so you can it in Word or other documents.
Thanks again to Mimoto for sending us out this pen to try,
lot of fun, and I'm sure Roxanna will get
a lot of good use out of this.
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