J'avais envisagé m'offrir une noteslate pour mon anniversaire. Mais même un an après la date de sortie annoncée dans l'appel à pré-commandes, il n'y a toujours pas de Noteslate disponible. Par contre, j'ai reçu la très sexy et un peu curieuse "bamboo spark". Une tablette graphique nomade et autonome, en somme.

I have a dream of an electronic device that would not hurt the eye. It would be as easy to use as a sketchpad. It might be crude, but it could capture drawn information as naturally as a keyword captures typed information.

I had hope that noteslate would match that dream. I had hope that staedler digital pen would fulfill that dream. I had hopes that hacking code for the cybook would make that dream close to reality. It didn't worked. This week-end, my family gave me a Bamboo Spark unit. Something that captures pen strokes, even when there is no computer around. You just write on plain paper with a modified rollerball pen. When close to an Androïd/iOS device, you can then swap pages that are in the device's memory.
From there on, you can send your notes to different data-sink applications on the phone/pad you have, though unfortunately, with my fairy's pad, twitter and blogger applications don't seem to work.

On trace, ça enregistre. On synchronisera avec un appareil Androïd (ou iOS pour les autres) plus tard. Les traits sont nets, bien plus précis et fiables qu'avec le décevant stylo numérique de chez Staedler, malgré la présence ici e...