After talking with more people about the io2Pen (and it's very easy to get people interested as it really is just a good idea) some other uses came up.
- Realtors who need to take notes when reviewing a home for sale, now don't have to lug around a laptop, or rely on their memory.
- Students! Now where was this during those painfully long lectures? This device would allow you to make all the notes you want, preserve your hardcopy but also provide you with a Word Document for later use in reports and information sharing.
- Meeting minutes.
- Creative types who like to write their ideas in the park or on the el train.
- Police reports and notes.
Anything out in the field like that where the logistics of a laptop simply do not work well, and you still need to transcribe your notes to digital format later.
Should more industries see the usefulness of this pen, perhaps paper void of all lines and margins, but obviously still containing the microdots, can be produced, which can then be printed with templates of your choosing. That way, the outline and fields to be filled in could be simply printed onto the paper using a standard printer, the user would then write within those fields and when the document was uploaded, it would upload into the corresponding Word Document that has those fields already in place.
Overall, I really liked this pen. The more I use it, the more I find ways to use it. It honestly just keeps getting better and I don't mind correcting the odd 'deadbeats' error, because it sure does beat retyping the entire document. At that point, you're not reproducing by hand, but merely proofreading.
~Kiersten aka GeekGirl
