Just get a touchscreen already. Then you can draw like on every other device you currently own.
Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
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Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
#62Actually, 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…
Or you could have a touchscreen and launch an application to do the all the things you want. Plus other things!
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#63I think it's a terrible idea. First, marker ink would be smudge all over backpack. Second, it's on the other side of the laptop! You wrote an algorithm on sketchcase and want to implement it. Well, now you have turn your laptop around every time too see it.
It seems like you'd have to pick up your laptop gingerly, no?
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#64I think it's a terrible idea. First, marker ink would be smudge all over backpack. Second, it's on the other side of the laptop! You wrote an algorithm on sketchcase and want to implement it. Well, now you have turn your laptop around every time too see it.
exactly, why not just a sheet of plastic the same size to throw in to the laptop sleeve with the machine
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#65I 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…
Aluminum won't attract the magnet usefully, unfortunately.
Bummer, makes sense though
Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
#66Actually, 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…
I've seen some prototype laptops with a bistable e-ink touchscreen on the back, that could retain its image with the laptop turned off. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2604775/intel-pastes-se...
I know it's low-tech, but I just keep a pad of sticky notes in my laptop bag. If I write a note, I can stick it to the screen when I close the laptop, and it's there to remind me when I get back to the office.
And my cousin is a sales rep for a drug company, so I have a whole crate of logo-ed sticky notes.
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#67You 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. http://the816.com/wooden-macbooks/
"oh... Thanks uncle riebschlager... a wooden MacBook..."
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#68Stickers on laptops usually make Jony Ive sad, and he's sad enough already being locked in that white room with one set of clothes. But this one is much better, because it occupies the entire laptop!
Stickers on laptops make ME sad. Like Run-DMC sang "Calvin Klein's no friend of mine, don't want nobody's name on my be-hind!"
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#69Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop
#70I think it's a terrible idea. First, marker ink would be smudge all over backpack. Second, it's on the other side of the laptop! You wrote an algorithm on sketchcase and want to implement it. Well, now you have turn your laptop around every time too see it.
Cool idea, but doesn't seem very practical. I also don't think people carry dry-erase markers with them