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E-I-E-Io?
Electronics | Jan 14, 05
On the whole, I'm a Logitech fan. I have a Logitech wireless (Bluetooth) Keyboard and Mouse on one of my systems, and it has the best 'look and feel' of any of my keyboards and mice. It is a bit expensive, perhaps, but the feeling of the mouse and keyboard make up for that, and it seems to work well.
Apparently as a registered Logitech user I just recieved a promo for the Logitech Io2, and I must say that the description of this device leaves me---for the most part---bewildered.
If I understand the description properly, the Io is sort of a pen-scanner that, working in conjunction with some form of special paper, allows me to write stuff and get it entered into my machine "directly". That is to say that the information I write is remembered in the pen, and when I place the pen in a docking station on my computer, the information will be transferred.
What bewilders me, I guess, is that I can't see anything superior to this scheme than to just using a normal ball-point pen and then scanning the information in to the computer. Indeed, the Io seems to me to be inferior to that very simple scheme on several fronts:
I'm unclear what accepting these restrictions buys me. If it's the recognition software, one would have to believe that this software would do just as well with things scanned in as with data entered via the pen.
But maybe I'm really missing the point, and I should be happy to pay $200 for my pen. It sure better fit my hand well to be worth that kind of money, and at the rate that I lose pens, it might become an expensive propostion if I were to find the device useful.
At the moment, though, that doesn't seem likely.
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