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A smartpen is a device that allows all the usual abilities of a basic ballpoint pen, but also has some more technologically innovative features as well. These features include a microphone, speaker
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A smartpen is a device that allows all the usual abilities of a basic ballpoint pen, but also has some more technologically innovative features as well. These features include a microphone, speaker and a small organic light emitting diode (OLED) screen. A smartpen will also typically have a tiny infrared camera built into the tip of the handle, near the actual pen, that tracks the movements of the pen to record the words and images that a user makes. If used with specially designed paper, this allows the user to record full notebooks of information that are saved onto the pen and can be uploaded onto a computer through a universal serial bus (USB) port connection.
A smartpen works primarily with notebooks or loose sheets of specially printed dot paper. This paper is covered with tiny microdots that allow the tiny camera to track the position of the pen on the paper itself. These microdots allow the pen to accurately record every word and line made by the pen’s user. The paper also has controls for the pen printed at the