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Example technology #1 Digital Pen
- Digital Pen
- Thin and light device that writes like an ordinary pen
- Includes camera that records pen strokes in pen memory that stores up to 200 pages
- Records position and time 75 times a second; camera records pen strokes in pen memory
- Used with digitized form, digital pen reads unique pattern of dots to interpret the data
- Docking Station
- Battery charging
- Uploading data from memory to database via Internet
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