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Paper's back

By Duncan Graham-Rowe

15 April 2000

IT’S goodbye to the idea of the paperless office: a new electronic pen could
bring paper back with a bang. Instead of tapping away on a computer keyboard,
the new pen lets you scribble e-mails freehand on special paper and then send it
across the Internet via your mobile phone.

The pen, made by Anoto of Lund, Sweden, has a standard ballpoint nib and the
maker is touting it as the only thing you’ll need to talk to your computer,
apart from the paper supplied in the form of a personal organiser.

As you write an appointment in your organiser,…

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