If your desk is covered with piles of papers and notebooks, leaving you drowning in a sea of disorganised hand-written notes, Latestbuy has just announced Australian pricing of the Boogie Board LCD tablet. Powered by a single watch battery, the ultra thin tablet is like a digital blackboard for your notetaking.
Because it only draws power when you erase the screen, a single battery will last for the equivalent of 50,000 sheets of paper. At $50, that works out costing $0.001 per sheet of paper, which is far cheaper than buying notepad after notepad.
The downside is that it doesn’t seem to offer a permanent record of your notes after you erase them, but given that it has no software or computer connectivity, that’s probably a good thing.
zahli
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 3:02 PMthis looks wik, but how the deuce do you retrieve the notes from the device? No mention on spec sheet of a sd card reader, usb slot or wifi. man i would sooo get this.
Water Bear
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 3:53 PMThe funny thing is that its just basically smudging an lcd around, so its not really a screen, so adding any extra functionality would make it a different machine altogether.
These are like those things we had as kids, which you drew on with a little bit of plastic and pulled the sheets apart to refresh it.
Its a pretty low fi device. I think we’ve all just gone a little tablet crazy.