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Definition: digital pen
(1) For a pen that is used on a touchscreen like a human finger, see stylus pen.
(2) An electronic ballpoint pen that stores and transfers everything written or drawn on digital paper to the computer via USB or wireless. Digital pens provide a more natural way to enter data. In addition, because the pen digitizes the data internally, the transfer to the computer can be done at a later time. Digital pens may also include audio recording (see below). The Swedish Anoto Group makes the digital paper technology (see Anoto).
A Natural Way to Write
Relive the Meeting or Lecture
(2) An electronic ballpoint pen that stores and transfers everything written or drawn on digital paper to the computer via USB or wireless. Digital pens provide a more natural way to enter data. In addition, because the pen digitizes the data internally, the transfer to the computer can be done at a later time. Digital pens may also include audio recording (see below). The Swedish Anoto Group makes the digital paper technology (see Anoto).
In 2003, Logitech introduced the io digital pen, capable of storing 40 hand-written pages. In 2007, London-based Destiny Wireless acquired the product line, which Anoto acquired in 2016. (Image courtesy of Logitech, Inc.)
Livescribe's Smartpens are also audio recorders so that students can capture the lectures with their notes. By pointing the Smartpen to their writing or drawings on the digital paper, they can play back the lecture they were listening to when they made those entries. (Image courtesy of Livescribe, Inc.)