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Ixp-Note is Post-It Note Of the Future: Digital, Alarming
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 6:52 PM on April 11, 2008
A team of designers in Britain have give the good old fashioned Post-It note a 21st Century electronic make-over. Their Ixp-Note device is a new digital version incorporating a touchpad and alarm: you just slide to select time and date, and write down what you need reminding of. When it's time, it bleeps and the little thermo-chromic ink pad changes colour. Neat, hey?
Originally designed to help Alzheimer's sufferers remember things, of course their potential appeal is much wider. The 1mm thick devices are made using similar circuit printing techniques as used in musical greeting cards, so they're pretty low cost at about $2 each. They're reusable, and you won't have to worry about battery life since they apparently last up to a year.
The designers hope they'll be on sale in 2009. Better put a note up to remind you to look out for them, then. [Telegraph]
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fusiongt
Posted 7:47 PM 11/4/08
Wow looks like a great invention... now if only there were a market for it.
fusiongt
bigbadjon
Posted 7:58 PM 11/4/08
Next year eh? Hang on while I put it into my smartphone to remind me to buy reminder tags... Hmm, something doesn't seem right here, but I don't know what. I should also remind myself to find out what's not right.
bigbadjon
jigsawfallingintoplace
Posted 8:15 PM 11/4/08
Now when your boss gives you a post-it with stuff you have to do, you can't "lose it" - the bugger bleeps, ensuring "a safe return to its owner"....
...damn.
Well, could always pretend I'm hiccuping..
jigsawfallingintoplace
strider_mt2k
Posted 9:15 PM 11/4/08
I only hope that hackers recycle these to annoy the same tools who bought these in the first place.
It'd serve 'em right.
strider_mt2k
flyboy
Posted 10:48 PM 11/4/08
reuseable and magnetic it has value...
flyboy
fsusmithc2
Posted 10:36 PM 11/4/08
At $2 a note, a standard pad of these would cost you hundreds of dollars. Nice idea though. Never hurts to innovate.
fsusmithc2
geekinky
Posted 10:15 PM 11/4/08
What's with those nappy-ass fingernails? They look like they were trimmed with garden shears.
geekinky
CampSteve
Posted 12:05 AM 12/4/08
It seems like the Alzheimer's solution was thrown in because they needed a noble cause. Not that notes can't help people with the disease but it sounds like an afterthought. I mean, they probably just wanted to make cool, tech-infused post-its!
CampSteve
Computer_Chef
Posted 12:57 AM 12/4/08
It was funnier when SNL did this as a Newton parody.
Computer_Chef
Cerixus
Posted 1:55 AM 12/4/08
@geekinky: Please tell me you are a chick.
Cerixus
Istrutnice
Posted 1:32 AM 12/4/08
@Computer_Chef: Prove it! Provide a link...
Istrutnice
bosskev
Posted 2:16 AM 12/4/08
@geekinky: An appropriately polite and charmingly friendly reply...which, um, didn't necessarily answer the question (at least, it doesn't when you're from San Francisco)
:)
bosskev
geekinky
Posted 2:08 AM 12/4/08
geekinky
Computer_Chef
Posted 3:52 AM 12/4/08
@Istrutnice: As you wish
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Computer_Chef
The Monarch
Posted 9:43 AM 13/4/08
@Computer_Chef: Wow, even the Mac PostIt note has cut, copy, paste functionality. Take that iPhone!
Wonder if Apple will go after NBC for image infringment like they went after GreenNYC [gizmodo.com]
The Monarch