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Everything but the kitchen pen
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By Jørgen Sundgot, Tuesday 16 July 2002  
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OTM Technologies' new Vpen incorporates handwriting recognition software from ART, which combined with Bluetooth allows users to write, recognize and transmit text on-the-fly.
A small Israeli company by the name of OTM technologies aims to unite the worlds of analog and digital information; the company's new Vpen uses a mix of ordinary handwriting, recognition software and Bluetooth to bring scribblings over from analog to digital form - and unlike its nearest competitor, Anoto, it doesn't make use of special paper.
 | Small but versatile; OTM Technologies' Vpen
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Embedded into OTM’s Bluetooth-enabled Vpen, ART’s handwriting recognition software, simpliWrite, converts written text and sends it straight to any Bluetooth-enabled mobile device. The out-of-the-box solution requires no special connection, and according to ART and OTM Technologies works with any device.
OTM Technologies’ VPen is a pen-shaped input device based on the VPen-core that enables interaction with a handset or any other data terminal, including text input and editing, gaming, drawing and continuous screen navigation and selection. With an OTM sensor at its tip, the motion of the pen across any surface is measured in three dimensions and streamed to the target device in real time.
OTM Technologies believes the potential of the VPen holds enormous potential in the mobile data environment as the only truly mobile tool replacing the keyboard/keypad & mouse configuration, thereby offering a complete user-interaction experience. Current alternatives include the Anoto pen, which works on a somewhat similar principle but requires paper with a specially printed grid consisting of grey dots to deliver the same functionality, and traditional stylus-based input methods for various mobile devices.
OTM Technologies will make the Vpen available to OEMs, but could not disclose any detail on whether manufacturers are currently working to bring Vpen-based products to market. The price tag will also be at the discretion to eventual OEMs, but should according to OTM Technologies lie below $80 USD.
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