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Re:Dry erase board lined with IR sensors to record pen strok... by natch on Friday September 11, 2015 @10:35PM (#10207029)
Please don't listen to all the naysayers (I was about to be one of them) who are saying this has "already been done." Sure, they are right. But is there one in every room of every office? No. But there could be.

The thing that has changed between back then when this stuff was first done and now, is that everybody has smartphones. The old dinosaur systems aren't priced to take this into account.

Re:Dry erase board lined with IR sensors to record pen strok... by j45 on Sunday September 13, 2015 @08:25PM (#10213217)
Agreed. Doing something for the first time, vs doing it well enough for adoption, or in a way that is more accessible is a creation itself.

If this was a frame or a kit I could attach to an existing board, I'd be ordering it right now. Shipping whiteboards is expensive so I hope that might be an option.

As the Apple Pencil has demonstrated again, most new things aren't always quite new. There's few form factor, interface, or screen innovations. What will be new is new ways to create using what we have.

Where you come across them, Naysayers are usually self-doubting doubt worshippers. Every person with unimpressed input should be taken with a grain of salt relative to how much a person feels the only thing of value is if it's something new or novel.