Smart Digital Devices Blog

Many note takers today face a choice of either lugging a laptop everywhere or writing everything down by hand and then manually entering their notes into a computer. Meanwhile, if you’re a compulsive doodler or graphic artist, many of your best works may be buried somewhere in the margins of an old notebook.

Iogear’s Mobile Digital Scribe ($130) represents an innovative alternative for note takers and sketchers alike: an ink pen with a digital component. The Digital Scribe comes with a receiver, and it saves everything you write to plain paper as a digital file. When you plug the receiver into a Windows PC, the device lets you upload your handwritten notes and convert them into text documents via the bundled My Script Notes 2.1 Lite optical character recognition (OCR) software.

Read detailes here.

Whenever you are busy, and you don’t have the time or hand to write a brief memo, you can just say it and convert your speech to text with Jott. This is extremely useful for busy executives. Great also if you are driving a car.

How does it work?

Dial a number or Speed-Dial button to call Jott.
Respond to the voice prompt and say your memo. Messages can be up to 30 seconds. When you are finished, stop talking.
Within a few minutes, your message will be sent to you via email or text message.

Apart from memo, Jott can also be used to create a reminder, post to your blog, create a Google Calendar item or send email/text messages to your contacts.
Note that you need to register Jott and give your details before you can use the service.

Source: PcWorld