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And to erase it you could... shake your laptop?
The Boogie Board is erased by pressing a button.
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Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
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Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
#42Instead of waiting, you can just order a small Writeyboard now which is exactly the same thing.
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#43Looks like a solution to a non-existing problem.
Looks like this submarine advertisement has surfaced.
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#44I think this is a really good idea, but if you look on eBay you can buy a 200cm by 45cm (~ 78.7 in by 17.7in) vinyl whiteboard sticker for $5. You could buy this, trim it down and use it on a handful of laptops at a significantly cheaper cost. There are lots of other listings for "whiteboard vinyl sticker" but here is the $5 one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Vinyl-Wall-Sticker-Removable-Whi... Also, I wonder if a "whi…
He has a pretty thorough DIY for anyone looking to go this route: https://www.sketchcase.com/diy/
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#45Actually, this just gave me a crazy idea... what if laptop manufacturers included something low powered like a boogie board device on the outside of the screen, which could write / save directly to some small internal storage of the laptop, and then the resulting notes could be accessible via the laptop when turned on? Kind of like.. a poor man's tablet on the outside of a laptop? I wonder the cost of that vs. touch…
But, in that case, how would it be different from just drawing on my Surface with my surface pen? It's kinda exactly what you need.
Latency and n-way multitouch.
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Yeah was just going to say, this is what the Surface Book was built for.
Microsoft has also a digital whiteboard product line that looks like oversized surface tablets. Very expensive and very popular I've been told.
At least in the case of the Surface Book they're pretty in line with MBP prices.
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#47Just what I want to do - draw private info on the back of my laptop and lug it around. Anybody got a way to print CC numbers onto my shoes?
(IOW: I think it's a cool hack that fails to consider actual implications outside of the immediate problem solved.)
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#48My fear would be that my notes are being erased when putting the notebook into my backpack.
You could always use permanent markers and ethanol or isopropyl alcohol to erase it.
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#49 So basically I have to either flip it down to see what someone drew on the whiteboard or turn it around. Pen and paper work just as well.
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#50You can get a quart of chalkboard paint for $15. You can even recycle broken laptops by painting the screen! http://www.target.com/p/devine-color-by-valspar-1-quart-chal...
Ha! Kinda related, I made my niece and nephew wooden MacBooks based on that same idea.