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News Release from: Unimatic Engineers | Subject: DigiMemo A501 electronic clipboard
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 January 2005
Electronic clipboard downloads to laptop
or PC
An electronic clipboard lets you handwrite notes and diagrams onto a standard A5 notepad, then store them digitally on your PC or laptop and can be treated like any electronic file.
Unimatic Engineers has launched DigiMemo A501, an electronic clipboard that lets you handwrite notes and diagrams onto a standard A5 notepad, then store them digitally on your PC or laptop Once digitised you can treat your notes like any electronic file; storing, viewing, organising, editing and even emailing them to colleagues
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Further the notes can be used in conjunction with My Script Notes - a handwriting recognition programme that will convert them into a Word document.
The DigiMemo is as portable and easy to use as a conventional clipboard, so is ideal for professional computer users on the move.
Teachers, hospital staff, plant engineers, surveyors and field operatives, indeed anyone who does not sit in front of a PC all day will find DigiMemo familiar and natural to use, and far more convenient than a laptop.
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Another advantage is that DigiMemo can be used by several people virtually simultaneously.
For instance it could be passed around the table at a design meeting for various people to add sketches.
Likewise, students in a tutorial or on a field trip can all contribute to a common file of notes.
Ordinary paper is used with DigiMemo, while the 'open' functions as both an ink pen to produce hard copy and as a digitising stylus.
When you want to download your pages, you simply connect the DigiMemo to a PC via the USB port and save the pages as a book file (e-file).
"Not only is the DigiMemo simple to use, but there is also a massive psychological advantage," says Trupti Patel, Unimatic's Marketing Manager.
"It's a known fact that you remember hand written notes for a long time, but typed notes are forgotten almost immediately.
So when writing onto DigiMemo you are reinforcing your short and long term memory of the notes you are taking.
The efficiency gain is quite astonishing." There is 8MB storage in the DigiMemo as standard, allowing about 1000 pages of notes to be saved.
And if this is not enough the memory is expandable with a plug in Compact Flash memory card.
System requirements are Windows 2000 or XP operating system, 500Mhz Pentium CPU and 128MB RAM.
Physical dimensions are about 300 mm by 200mm and 15mm thick, virtually identical to a standard A4 clipboard.
Weightwise, the DigiMemo tips the scales at about 0.5kg.
Patel again: "DigiMemo is very natural and intuitive to use.
One of my favourite uses is for form-filling where both hardcopy and digital filing is required: a teacher doing reports on 30 separate pupils will save hours, as will a doctor making extensive medical notes on an engineering doing a plantwide condition survey. Request a free brochure from Unimatic Engineers ...
Special form-structure software is available for such applications.".
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