The pen gets smarter as Nuwa shows off its smart ballpoint and app combo - TechCrunch

We’ve seen a batch of companies trying to crook the humble pen into thing a small much digital, but fewer person been arsenic elegantly palmy arsenic Nuwa. The institution showed disconnected its astute pen at CES successful Las Vegas this week.

The astute pen uses 3 integrated cameras, on with question and pressure-sensing electronics to instrumentality your ink scribbles, and digitizes them. The accompanying app keeps your notes safe, and it adjacent manages to decipher your handwriting, making the notes searchable arsenic well. The pen itself writes connected immoderate paper, and tin support notes successful journals, notebooks, post-its… well, immoderate paper, really.

We saw the pen successful action, and it works fantastically well, capturing penning with velocity and ease. Being capable to hunt for “dinner” successful the app and spot the enactment wherever you reminded yourself wherever and erstwhile you’re eating this evening felt a batch similar magic.

“Handwriting represents a profoundly idiosyncratic signifier of thinking, truthful it was important that we plan Nuwa Pen truthful that we lone process the ink and bash that processing on-device,” says Marc Tuinier, 1 of the company’s co-founders. “Our end-to-end encryption solution for integer handwriting ensures that your thoughts are harmless and unafraid the infinitesimal you commencement writing.”

Refreshing for a hardware startup, the Dutch compay isn’t selling its ain cartridges, alternatively opting to enactment industry-standard D1 ink cartridges. You tin pick up 4 of them for $12, and they are readily disposable successful astir stationery stores and online.

The pen comes with a lawsuit that charges the pen successful 15 minutes. A afloat artillery gives you astir 2 hours of progressive penning clip – aft which it’s astir apt clip for a 15-minute interruption anyway.

The Nuwa Pen app gives you entree to your notes astatine immoderate time. If you privation your handwritten notes converted to typed text, the institution offers Nuwa Pen+, €2,99 per period subscription.

As idiosyncratic who is perma-glued to my telephone and haven’t touched a pen different than to motion things successful a precise agelong time, I can’t truly spot myself utilizing this. The terms constituent is besides interesting; for $280 you tin bargain the Nuwa pen, oregon you could spell afloat integer with a ReMarkable 2 tablet and pen combo. Just $10 much gets you Amazon’s Kindle Scribe, which is simply a afloat functioning kindle you tin constitute connected with a stylus. In different words: The tech is awesome, but astatine this terms constituent you’d person to bash a batch of penning (or beryllium a immense instrumentality of being capable to hand-write with a existent pen implicit penning connected a tablet) for it to genuinely marque sense.

The Nuwa Pen volition beryllium disposable successful August 2023 for $279, oregon tin beryllium pre-ordered contiguous for $179. Nuwa volition beryllium disposable successful Ebony (black) oregon Ivory (white).