Dane-Elec Zpen: Handwritten Notes to Computer
The Dane-Elec Zpen device provides you with a quick and easy way to transfer all of your handwritten notes directly to your computer, kind of like we have seen with the Iogear, the Quickies and the Mobile Notetaker.
Zpen works by attaching the recieverbox onto a notepad or clipboard (up to A4 in size) and switch it on. Now you can write down whatever or as much as you want, using the Zpen ballpen, and it will be transfered directly to the memorystick in the recieverbox. The memorystick can hold up to 1 GB of data = A LOT of notes!
When you then are done for the day and want to transfer the notes to your PC, all you have to do is to plug it into a USB port on your PC and open one of the three “tools” that are included in the Zpen set.
The Dane-Elec Zpen is available over at the Gadgets.dk website for 899 DKK (about $186 USD).
13 comments for “Dane-Elec Zpen: Handwritten Notes to Computer” »
14 July 2008 at 3:33 pm
what happens when the ink runs out? can you get replacements or does the ink NEVER run out?
15 July 2008 at 8:07 am
The pen features a standard ink replacement solution.
15 July 2008 at 3:53 pm
When it converts a page of handwritten text into computer text, does it compress the text? – you get more word processed type than handwritten words on a page – or does it simply transfer what is written on the page onto a single page on the computer?
Am I making sense? Would be a first!
16 July 2008 at 1:57 am
My guess is that it saves them as pdf files or something similar.
25 July 2008 at 1:41 pm
can you edit the stored text once it is on the computer?
28 July 2008 at 12:49 am
I don’t think so, but I’m not sure.
7 August 2008 at 10:48 am
It opens your scribblings up using your own word processing software, so you can play with it and edit it to your heart’s content.
8 August 2008 at 1:55 am
Thanks a lot for the info, Stuart!
10 August 2008 at 12:42 pm
Does it work wit a mac or not? Never clear to me. NP
10 August 2008 at 1:03 pm
Yes Nils, the Dane-Elec Zpen works with PC, Mac and Linux.
21 November 2008 at 9:25 am
Does it support the Greek language? If yes, I buy it tomorrow morning, if not today.
21 November 2008 at 11:25 am
I’m not sure George, maybe you could try contacting the retailer for the “Dane-Elec Zpen” (link included in article) and ask.
18 February 2009 at 8:24 am
Have to correct you on the “works with mac and Linux”. It will allow you to view your notes with a Mac but will not let you edit it as the software supplied only works with PCs, unless you know of another piece of software that will work with it.
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