Digital Ink

Digital Ink

Description: Part design, part critique, Digital Ink is the re-assemblage of current and future technologies into a portable and socially familiar object. It's a sophisticated pen that allows people to take notes, sketch, and digitally save their physical data as they write. It strives to turn mobile computing on it's head by turning the computer display into a piece of paper and the keyboard and input device into the pen itself. It's designed so people can do things they normally do with any pen, but also store, fax, plan and correspond with others.

Digital Ink has cellular components that allow any stored information to be sent to computers, printers and fax machines by simply pressing the pen's mode button and writing words like "send to" followed by an email address, or "fax to" followed by a phone number.

Links:

ICES Interaction Design Studio - Carnegie Mellon University: http://panopticon.ices.cmu.edu/design/