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A team of designers in Britain have give the good old fashioned Post-It note a 21st Century electronic make-over. Their Ixp-Note device is a new digital version incorporating a touchpad and alarm: you just slide to select time and date, and write down what you need reminding of. When it's time, it bleeps and the little thermo-chromic ink pad changes color. Neat, hey?
Originally designed to help Alzheimer's sufferers remember things, of course their potential appeal is much wider. The 1mm thick devices are made using similar circuit printing techniques as used in musical greeting cards, so they're pretty low cost at about $2 each. They're reusable, and you won't have to worry about battery life since they apparently last up to a year.
The designers hope they'll be on sale in 2009. Better put a note up to remind you to look out for them, then. [Telegraph]
Comments
Wow looks like a great invention... now if only there were a market for it.
Next year eh? Hang on while I put it into my smartphone to remind me to buy reminder tags... Hmm, something doesn't seem right here, but I don't know what. I should also remind myself to find out what's not right.
Now when your boss gives you a post-it with stuff you have to do, you can't "lose it" - the bugger bleeps, ensuring "a safe return to its owner"....
...damn.
Well, could always pretend I'm hiccuping..
I only hope that hackers recycle these to annoy the same tools who bought these in the first place.
It'd serve 'em right.
What's with those nappy-ass fingernails? They look like they were trimmed with garden shears.
At $2 a note, a standard pad of these would cost you hundreds of dollars. Nice idea though. Never hurts to innovate.
reuseable and magnetic it has value...
It seems like the Alzheimer's solution was thrown in because they needed a noble cause. Not that notes can't help people with the disease but it sounds like an afterthought. I mean, they probably just wanted to make cool, tech-infused post-its!
It was funnier when SNL did this as a Newton parody.
@Computer_Chef: Prove it! Provide a link...
@geekinky: Please tell me you are a chick.
@Cerixus: I'm flattered by your advances, but I must inform you that I'm happily married to a wonderful woman.
@geekinky: An appropriately polite and charmingly friendly reply...which, um, didn't necessarily answer the question (at least, it doesn't when you're from San Francisco)
:)
@Istrutnice: As you wish
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@Computer_Chef: Wow, even the Mac PostIt note has cut, copy, paste functionality. Take that iPhone!
Wonder if Apple will go after NBC for image infringment like they went after GreenNYC [gizmodo.com]
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