Re:Sony’s e-paper tablet is a great example of Weird Sony
by ChuckMcM on Monday April 10, 2017 @03:17PM
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I think I have 5 or 6 BoogieBoards around my lab, one of them is a 'sync'. The challenge with the boogieboard is that they are like writing with a very fat marker. (and its a bit smaller than standard paper.
If you compare what you can do with that vs a Surface Pro 4 pencil and Drawboard PDF the contrast is fairly startling (and expected given order of magnitude difference in price).
I asked the inventor of the Boogieboard at Makerfaire if they had ever considered making a large whiteboard sized one (that would be pretty useful in my lab). He said they would consider it but there were technical issues with the surface area vs the erase mechanism (something like generating a very strong electric field across a very large area like that).
I don't think it's quite US Standard Paper (I don't have mine with me at the moment to check), but it is quite a decent size.
It takes only a moment to save what you've written, and clearing the screen takes a split second. You do have to use a special stylus it comes with to write to the device though, other strokes won't be saved. The battery life is supposed to be ~7 days of run time, if you were writing continuously. It is quite slim, and very light weight.
From what I've read, the PDFs store your pen strokes. They claim this is optimal for OCR, but I've never tested that claim.
[0]: https://myboogieboard.com/ewriters/sync