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The Boogie Board ( http://www.myboogieboard.com/ ) is worth a look for anyone interested in this sort of thing. It's technologically MUCH simpler than this concept — you can't save what you draw — but the response time is instant and it's a real thing, today.
Awesome concept. I was thinking about this yesterday actually (while looking for the pads of paper I like, which are virtually impossible to find!).. I really think for these products to be successful, there needs to be an obsessive level of thought and craft put into how it feels. For one thing, in some of the screenshots you can see a shakiness in the lines... I've found any of the electronic writing surfaces I've…
I could see this as being useful as an input medium to something like Balsamiq, but that might conflict with the "we're keeping it simple. just like paper. nothing you can't do with paper." feel they're going for. Which is an odd pitch --- people selling electronic whiteboards usually say something like, "you can pretend it's like your other whiteboards, but here's all this other stuff you can also do with it!"
4 color model + solar back = note-taker's dream, though. Very interested to see this thing come out. And please please please leave it programmable in some way / shape / form.
I don't exactly wish I were taking classes just so I could do that, but if I were, oh man would this be useful. At that price, it's probably worth picking up as-is when it comes out.
Microsoft should buy NoteSlate and rename the device the Microsoft OneNote. Have it sync with Microsoft Office OneNote and Office Web Apps.
Reasons that I want one: * E-INK * Optionally in color! (I like the blackboard aesthetic, to say nothing of green-on-black) * Lightweight * Long battery life * Ability to read text files (on the dev roadmap, at least) * Open-source firmware (in case the ability to read text files doesn't manifest itself quickly enough for my tastes, and for general hackability) * Central place that I can keep all my notes and easily take them with me pretty much anywhere
Additional things that I probably need in order to have it be more than a fun toy: * Responsiveness (as others have mentioned, too much lag between pen motion and stroke appearance is probably a deal-breaker, though if it only happens occasionally it's okay; my current tablet has the same problem and it's still usable for me) * Better navigation (it seems pretty shoddy; I don't want to have to flip through a hundred pages to find a particular note... and once I do, how do I get back to the front page?) * Hierarchical ability to group pages together (so I can keep my shopping lists in one place, my notes for classes in a different place--sets of pages grouped together by specific lecture, which are then grouped together by class--and my todo list in another place...)
Additional things that I want but don't need: * Ability to use external keyboard to write to text files (this would be awesome, but I can also appreciate that it might go against their ethos) * PDF and text file annotation * Infinite paper with scroll and zoom (I'm less certain of this, though; seems like it would be great for mindmapping and stuff like that, but it also seems like it could be easy to lose things off in the middle of nowhere) * Ability to rearrange text (rectangle/lasso select and then drag/cut/paste) * Tactile sense of drawing on paper (This would be awesome, but my tablet works pretty well for me without it)
If this existed, I'd buy it on the spot even though I'm far from an early adopter when it comes to electronics. Too bad it doesn't-the lack of a next page button and actual product pictures (among other things) signals this. Oh well, back to dreaming about the MS Courier Concept.
closest you can get to a courier is a kindle and tab in the same carry case.