Technology partners

The technology

We use a variety of current technologies to deliver innovation and business benefit to our clients. Some of the key technology components are highlighted here.

The digital pen

The main parts of the digital pen are a digital camera, an advanced image-processing unit and a
Bluetooth radio transceiver. It also contains an ink cartridge so that you can actually see what
you have written or drawn.

The digital pen does not have any buttons or display. It looks and feels like an ordinary ballpoint
pen and you use it in the same way. You activate the pen by simply removing the cap and
deactivate it by replacing the cap again. It couldn't be easier.

The paper

The paper makes this innovation so special. Printed on it is pattern consisting of millions of tiny
dots, making it possible to identify the exact location of your pen, as well as connect a set of
unique functions to the pattern.

The paper consists of an ordinary paper provided with a dot pattern, invisible to the eye, that is
either pre-printed or printed on a laser printer. The displacement of the dots, 0.1 millimetres in
size, from the relative position enable them to be programmed to tell the pen the exact location
on the page – or the whole pad of papers – one is writing on.

By registering the pen’s movement across the paper, and also the pressure, the writing is interpreted and digitalised. Hence the technology is not based on characters having to be written in a special way, in contrast to various other applications such as hand-held computers. Even drawn sketches can be interpreted and transferred.