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Mintpad Wireless Post-Its Good For Classroom Note-Passing, Digital-Style
Posted by Kit Eaton at 10:15 PM on November 5, 2008
Digitised Post-It-alike gizmos aren't new, but none I can think of is quite as functional as Mintpass' Mintpad. It's a web-surfing, Wi-Fi, media player with 1.3-megapixel cam, microphone and built-in speaker, 4GB of memory with microSD expansion. Plus it's a 320 x 240-pixel 2.9-inch touchscreen note-taker.
It won't handwriting-recognise your scrawls though, it simply replaces Post-Its for reminder notes. And you can send your notes over the net to other Mintpad owners. Will it replace crumpled paper-notes bearing "Steve fancies you!" messages thrown between desks in class—or displace the humble SMS? Could do, but since it's out in South Korea for about $US156, probably not. [Pocketables via Engadget]
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KassiaHaoe
Posted 1:31 AM 6/11/08
Useless piece of shit.
KassiaHaoe
BhavBhavBhav
Posted 1:52 AM 6/11/08
Might as well get an eee amirite.
BhavBhavBhav
aerospaceman
Posted 2:20 AM 6/11/08
seems like the functionality would be easy to duplicate on the Iphone or Itouch (new Itouch owner, loving it)
aerospaceman
maven2k
Posted 2:43 AM 6/11/08
We're talking about a $156 piece of kit here, not a $400 iPod Touch for crying out loud.
maven2k
superUNKNOWN84
Posted 3:20 AM 6/11/08
Yeah, this seems like I would like it to scrawl down a quick shopping list, except I already have my palm pilot to do that, on second thought, you can probably find a PPC on Craigslist that would do more, this item is just pretty. Do these have wireless?
superUNKNOWN84
DaSmith
Posted 10:29 AM 6/11/08
So by missing the fun of writing "Dumb ass" with big thick letters on a large sheet of paper and then throwing it at someone's head with all the force you can, pretending you never even knew about the accident, you gain exactly what? Oh and it is not cheap at all. Some mobile phones can do a lot of this (without touch screen of course) and cost equally and actually have some other usability, like... talking to other people you know...
DaSmith
Mr.Purple
Posted 11:52 AM 6/11/08
"Steve fancies you!"
WTF?
I am pretty sure that teens don't say that to each other anymore. Hell, I don't think they ever did...
Mr.Purple
BeautifulAgony
Posted 3:09 PM 6/11/08
@Mr.Purple: Clearly no one fancies you, because you, sir, are a foppish cad! I, however, do fancy Steve! What a dashing gentleman!
:P
BeautifulAgony