Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Cool Stuff Not Available for Mac Shocker!

Anoto are a bunch of mad Swedes who have invented a digital pen. The magic stuff they have came up with is a special spotted paper with unique markings so the pen can tell what kind of document its writing, the colour the 'ink', where it is on the page, should the writing be sent as an email. Despite featuring in a major feature article written for Wired magazine the company is doing quite well and coming up with cool stuff. As any bureaucrat would tell you the pen is a lifesaver for meetings and a sure TabletPC killer for mobile applications such as the UPS man.

Anoto have licenced this technology to a number of people most notably Logitech; the mouse and speaker people.

Logitech's io is a neat piece of kit. Unfortunately they haven't released any Mac drivers for it and won't be doing so for the forseeable future. What I'd like you to do is help them forsee the future by completing this form requesting Mac drivers. (Re the product and serial number, they have a very handy prompt that tells you how many digits that you need to fake up).