You need to buy a Boogie Board. Right now.
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Well, only if you like it I guess.
It's a 40 dollar pressure sensitive drawing tablet.
Positives:
40 bucks
Absolutely no lag (it's instant, like pen on paper, unlike the Cintiq, Note 2, etc)
No batteries, no recharging, no cables
3mm thick (thinner than an iPhone)
Like a cross between a chalkboard and Etch a Sketch
Negatives:
Can't save out pictures
Only white ink on black background
No backlight
No eraser (entire image erases at once at the press of a button.)
Product lasts 50,000 erases
No mini size
Here's a video of it in action (skip ahead to see him write on it)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJvNEzCaNwg"]Gizmo - Boogie Board 10.5" LCD Review - YouTube[/ame]
We just got these in at work and put one on display. The thing is amazing for $39.99. Great gift idea!
Think of all the possibilities...I'd love to have one on my computer desk rather than post it notes. It would be awesome on the bus too!
I'm hoping they come out with a model that has an SDcard slot. That would just be amazing.
Sorry for the dedicated thread, I thought this thing deserved it
(I'll be picking up 3 or 4 of these bad boys as gifts
)
It's a 40 dollar pressure sensitive drawing tablet.
Positives:
40 bucks
Absolutely no lag (it's instant, like pen on paper, unlike the Cintiq, Note 2, etc)
No batteries, no recharging, no cables
3mm thick (thinner than an iPhone)
Like a cross between a chalkboard and Etch a Sketch
Negatives:
Can't save out pictures
Only white ink on black background
No backlight
No eraser (entire image erases at once at the press of a button.)
Product lasts 50,000 erases
No mini size
Here's a video of it in action (skip ahead to see him write on it)
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJvNEzCaNwg"]Gizmo - Boogie Board 10.5" LCD Review - YouTube[/ame]We just got these in at work and put one on display. The thing is amazing for $39.99. Great gift idea!
Think of all the possibilities...I'd love to have one on my computer desk rather than post it notes. It would be awesome on the bus too!
I'm hoping they come out with a model that has an SDcard slot. That would just be amazing.
Sorry for the dedicated thread, I thought this thing deserved it
(I'll be picking up 3 or 4 of these bad boys as gifts
)
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i don´t see anything this has over a good old pen and paper.
this is just a waste of rare earth minerals.
and why the hell does the lock button only lock the eraser and not the screen, this makes it kinda redundant.
really look at the positive points of paper:
40 cents
Absolutely no lag (it's instant, its pen on paper)
No batteries, no recharging, no cables
0.1 mm thick (probably the thinnest thing you are able to see)
Like a cross between a chalkboard and Etch a Sketch
eraser works!
up to 200 uses per go, comes in all sizes, refillable
hard covers ensure stability
comes in all colors and can be used with all colors
negatives:
for every 100000000 papers a tree dies (they grow back)
Can't save out pictures
No backlight
has to be refilled after 200 uses
to be usefull it needs to have an erase & save funktion (+usb for exporting)
i simply cannot see ANY advantage to a piece of paper
With the heat the way it is at the moment, though, I might have to invest in a boogie board and head down to the beach soon.
In this regard, I'm not even sure how they could implement saving, depends on the tech involved in that custom LCD.
A lot of valuable resources spent on building a posh magic slate IMO.
- infinite levels of pressure sensitivity
- 0.5 mm thick
- absolutely no lag
- no batteries
- dozens of ways of making marks and shading
- can be erased, saved or scanned
- 40 bucks can buy lots of them
It's a toy. A gadget. It looks neat...
If it could somehow upload everything you write instantly to cloud storage then I might be more interested, as I did once drop a notebook into a lake.
So we are playing boogieboard scissors paper? Well I have paper...
so similar
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the current version of those boards has the ability to save files but it costs more
and is called
Boogie Board RIP
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymvi8lwdu8[/ame]
Thanks
I can also see this perfect for quick notes on a fridge or some where in the house that sees lots of traffic.
With paper, pencil you always have to keep track of the pencil and paper. You run out, you can misplace it etc. With this you lose the stylus you can use anything else, like your finger.
It would be cool if it could save, but really depending on how you use it, its not needed.
Yep, I grabbed a few. Kitchen message board will definitely be a use for one of them. Another I'll probably keep at my desk for quick think sessions. I think it'll be great...
Why not get her a Cintiq to release her inner artist? nothing says creativity like expensive equipment
You cannot be serious.
I suppose it could eventually be cheaper to use this boogieboard, very very maybe, but you sacrifice a lot of control and convenience for it.
You wouldn't take this to the store as easily. You need to have the right pen around to write on it. You can't divvy it up among people. You can't erase just one part of the list. You need to have working batteries. You need to and-so-forth. You need to etc.
@TNO thanks for the link! I'm going to bug my manager to see if we can get some of those in; so far they have been pretty popular.
@Sandu, yes I've seen those before. I prefer the higher definition screen of the boogie board though. It's like comparing 240 to 1080.
100% serious..
Going out to buy paper when its done.. pencils and pens.. ack.
Going out to buy paper when its done.. pencils and pens.. ack.
I would love to.. But my bank account protests such spending.
edit: oops sorry for the double post. I don't know what happened.
And very importantly, at least for me, you can't take this, crumple it into a ball and throw it at the ground in disgust when you draw something unforgivably shitty. (Also you can't fold it up and stuff it in your pocket as a reminder later.)
I'm going to get some stick on magnets and attach one to our fridge because it'll be perfect for leaving notes and such. I'll take another to work for quick sketches and working out problems.
The stylus is cheap but workable. It IS pressure sensitive but not really in any meaningful way - you won't be creating art on this unless you're really determined.
Also, it doesn't react with just your finger but it WILL react to your fingernail. So I'm guessing it needs some sort of hard contact before it registers. I mean, I CAN get the flat of my fingertip to make a smear but you really have to press down hard.
Anyway, looks just nerdy enough to fit into my life...
So it's an expensive post-it note? "Neat"...