Pen

One of the brainstorming meetings was dedicated to concepts. And the subject was chosen by evidence prompt: the one holding in hand. The methodology of creative thinking “Six hats” was practiced successfully.

Facts – At the beginning some information was presented to the audience
- The pen should comply universal standards: weight, length, form.
- wi-fi detector
-  digital pen (watch video)
- Patent for digital pen using accelerometers and gyroscopes

Emotions
- fatigue in hand
- hate pens which can be easily broken
- metal is nice by touch
- dislike smell of iron, if the surface is not nickel-plated
- the hand of left-handler is soiled
- heavy – light
- pen cannot be erased as against pencil
- like to twist in hand
- nicely designed
- branded
- expensive
- can’t make undertint

Creativity
- text highlight while writing
- pointer
- transformer
- save the writing in the vector image format into embedded memory
- wireless transfer writing to the laptop
- pens movement corrections (calligraphy correction)
- autocomplete
- warm pen
- charging from usb
- charging from hand heat
- charging while jolting
- mobile phone with voice commands
- mp3
- one string display (running letters) – display is hidden by the shield. opened by cap twist
- gyroscopic pen?
- feed the ink by sensor command. Sensor is located on the tip of the pen
- erasing ink
- use of saved writing by digital pen:
* order of writing words and letters facilitates handwriting recognition
* editing (with original paper)
* Pict bridge instant printing (without computer connection)

Positive
- gadgets are popular
- with electronic pen you can use any surface, as against tablets
- saving notes is much faster than any communicator can do
- the smallest device for taking digital notes

Negative
- it should be cheap to be widely sold
- tablet-PC or any sensor display with a stick is the same as digital pen with PC. Unlike the latter, former already exists on the market.
- keyboard is much faster input device than a pen
- keyboard input is much less erratic than recognized handwriting

Tasks to develop

- Investigate on application of perspective ideas
- Allocate realistic ideas and look for analogue
- Perform innovation solution for reasonable ideas if there would be any.