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| 29 Nov 2007 - DESTINY WIRELESS - The Digital Pen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I heard Ray Hadley do a live commercial for a thing called the Destiny Wireless Pen, and my ears pricked up - well I have to try that! So I met today with Andrew Bissex, the boss of the Australian arm of Destiny. This is amazing technology, you cannot help but be impressed, and think "how can i use that" But don't get ahead of yourself. There are genuine commercial applications for this - as a personal user, I can see why it hasn't and probably won't be a big thing. Firstly to that personal use. Using a special notepad (see below), you can write notes, draw diagrams or whatever you like, and then email that note to a person on your contact list, or a new address, then with the tick of a box, it's emailed to you. (I'll explain HOW soon) Commercially, this is VERY exciting. Imagine a plumber, tradesman, technician, anyone who fills in a job sheet on site - or a Blind or Air Conditioning salesman who comes to a site and fills in a quote sheet. Until this device, they would fill in the forms, then once a day, or more likely once a week, return to base to drop off all the forms. Someone would then collate those forms, type them up, and either send the invoice or send the quote. With DESTINY, using that same form, customised a bit (below), the form data is sent DIRECT back to base via your mobile phone. It can then be viewed as it was written, or viewed as 'read' by a computer - where the text has been convered to type on your screen. and it does an AMAZING JOB of that. This means a faster turn around time for invoicing, payments, quotes, as well as savings in time for staff driving back to the office to drop off forms and such. These are genuine savings for businesses. I'm talking businesses with 10 or more staff out on the road. How does it work? That's where it gets interesting. The pads you write on for simple notes, or the order sheets that are produced have on them a subtle but visable dot pattern - millions of dots on the page that let the PEN know where you are on the page. On all forms there is a START box and a SEND box. You tick the start box, and the pen starts recording. Fill in all the bits, then tick the SEND box. The pen (paried with a mobile phone), then sends the data to the phone, you press send on the phone, and the data is sent via GPRS over the internet to its destination. On it's way it is turned into a PDF and optionally using OCR like technology, your writing becomes words in a file. SIMPLE AS THAT. OH, and its a normal pen ball point pen too! Now my handwriting is SHOCKING, here is it's interpretation of my note, and below you might be able to make out my note MOBILE work FOR (Et?'? Urinating this with my messy handwriting i to find it hard to Delaine a computer can work out what I am shy i^y-y, Notes are not the key usage, a mobile workforce filling out job sheets or quote forms or order forms, back to base in no time It's been a bony time since i wrote in running waiting Not bad, even the RUNNING WRITING was interpreted! Amazing! Seriously. If you are a mobile workforce, check it out! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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