The Moleskine Pen+ smart writing set is aiming to supplant the traditional pen and notebook. The smart writing set has three elements: the pen, which is a Moleskine branded Neo smartpen, which is bluetooth connected and also works as a regular pen; the “paper tablet”, which is essentially a Moleskine notebook of special paper with tiny dots all over it; and the free app, Moleskine Notes, for your smartphone. Unlike previous smartpens, the pen included with the Moleskin Pen+ writing set feels more like a regular pen than anything else. If you scribble a few notes on regular paper, the app won’t pick it up. If you want to use the pen to digitise your notes, you need the special paper, and the Moleskine paper tablets are twice the price of the company’s regular notebooks.

Source: The Irish Times March 01, 2018 06:39 UTC