plus corporation is a company out of japan that makes a lot of home office products everything
from white out staplers and even rollable glue and pencil sharpeners that look like race cars
within this company comes something right up our alley the kaite slate the last generation came out
in 2020 called the kaitei 2 and this is the latest model the 2s ultra white this is an item that acts
almost identical to e-paper but uses no electronics the fact that it has no electronics
is a massive win for countries all around the world that may have trouble with the importation
of consumer electronics some countries being charged upwards of 40 or even 50 percent vat
the kite is not an electronic product it doesn't require any batteries you never
need to charge it and you never run out of power and unlike a boogie board or many of its clones
which is primarily littered with colors that you just don't really want to see like blacks greens
purples and not giving you the clean and concise lines the kaite 2s is the whitest magnet board
in the entire world so how does the technology work well they're using something called clean
paper technology which utilizes micro capsules filled with iron particles what happens is when
the pen rushes over the individual capsules the iron particles rise to the surface making a line
which offers a pen-like experience not found on any other device without batteries
how e-ink and e-paper works is much the same
we have to first look at the pen because this is honestly the biggest advancement and improvement
they give you a 0.5 millimeter fountain pen with a 55 degree writing angle
not only that they include two erasers a brush eraser to clean the actual slate itself
and an eraser on the back of the pen in order to do some more concise eraser strokes
the pen also has developed a gap in between the tip
and the housing in order to account for flex giving you an authentic writing feel
in terms of the writing experience itself that angle most definitely does help because in the
past you didn't have this extreme of an angle it used to be like you were kind of
writing top down maybe a little bit tilted but this one you can really get into it
and because it is a magnet board and not a e-ink tablet with a wacom screen or any sort
of capacitive active capacitive capabilities the latency is zero it's as fast as you want to
write it and it won't ever be any slower because nothing needs to compute nothing needs to catch up
after you've done writing we can actually move over to the app and save our notes once you're
ready to go and you have the app booted up on your phone what you actually do is very easy
you just hover it over the screen and it keys out a green portion of whatever you just hovered over
and it automatically knows where the screen is from here you can see that there's a bunch
of things you can do you can actually go to the contrast and you can make it darker
or lighter respectively you don't want to make it too late because things just get a little
fuzzy and you can't read it but if you find your level of contrast because remember it's not an
electronic device they leave it up to you to kind of tweak things after the fact so it's very simple
what you can do from here there's a lot you can do actually you can go over to the pen and you
can choose a variety of four different pens and an eraser and you can make notes on the screen
does it transmit over to the board of course not this is a physical piece completely disconnected
from this in every single way but you can make your highlights and you can make notes
and you can circle things and then once you're ready you can go ahead over to here you can save
this to the device or you can actually share it via other apps once you go other apps you're
actually able to choose any app you wish on your phone and send it over there you can even send
it via facebook messenger anything you want it's so convenient and easy you don't actually have to
save it although you could save it to your phone at which point all you have to do is go over to
your kaite folder click on it and there are the notes you have just saved once you have saved
these to your phone and you know that you're good to go on your phone you've saved it you've done
everything you need to do then you clear all so to speak in which case you start erasing things
obviously there's no way you can go back and edit because there's just simply that's not possible
the only way to go back and edit is to look at what you just did and try to draw everything
all the exact same so that's not how it works is that these two aren't connected in any way other
than the camera being completely formatted to take a picture and recognize the exact
style of strokes the exact gradients of gray the exact contrast in order to transmit it properly
over to here you might also be thinking why don't you just take a picture of it well if you take a
picture of it all you're doing is taking a picture of the actual kaite slate in which case you're
not transmitting the notes you're just taking a physical photo of what's on here another reason
you don't actually have to take a photo is because when you use the app you are taking a photo if we
toggle that off you can see that's the physical thing we've taken a picture of in this kind of
lit room as it is however when you go like that you now have everything completely keyed out
and it just captured your strokes so that's kind of the beauty of it the app is definitely
a one-trick pony in that there are no settings although there's something really interesting
you can do you actually can choose your file format to which you want to save it as a jpeg
or a pdf so you can actually draw on here transmit via the camera to your phone via pdf files
the erasers are actually quite nice so as you draw a line you have a couple ways you can erase
as we've already kind of touched on you have the scrubber which is really nice because it has this
felt lining kind of thick palette here so you can just go like that and away it goes cleans it very
nicely you can draw with the pen and use the back of the pen you don't have to have it connected too
you can kind of just utilize it on its own but it is nice to have it at the back and it does double
as the pen cap for the front so you have this for more of an exact kind of pinpoint eraser
now say you've drawn stuff all over the place from corner to corner all over the kite well
you can upgrade to the jumbo roller which actually comes with the more expensive third
generation kaite that's 43 inches this thing's awesome that'll just roll right over this beast
look at that completely gone this thing is not included but it is fun to use because it has this
very torquey rubber roller and it's just a joy to watch everything disappear before your eyes
a lot of people may scoff at the kaite slate but this is one of the most important devices we've
seen in a long time when it comes to note-taking and the digital stationary world plus corporation
is occupying a sector that no one else has touched ultra white background black and white
note taking experience on a 13.3 inch slate an accompanying smartphone app to save your notes
all without running any batteries or even a usb port in terms of 13.3 inch note-taking devices
if you want something entry-level that doesn't require you to be near a power
source or maybe you're off the grid this device is invaluable for goodiereader.com this is peter
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