Anoto

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Anoto Group AB (former C Technologies) (OMX: ANOT) is a Swedish technology company developing and licensing a product line of digital pens (marketed under the C-Pen brand) and a product suite to manage information procurement utilizing these (marketed as Anoto). Anoto Group is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

[edit] C-Pen

Anoto's main product is the C-Pen, a combination of ordinary ink pen and a digital camera (as well as supporting hardware) designed to digitally record every writing. To do so specially marked paper is required.

Anoto itself does not sell the pen, it is being licensed to partners which sell it under their brand.

These pens are used in optical scan voting systems in Germany.^[1]

Models include:

• Ericsson Chatpen CHA-30 (discontinued)
• Nokia SU-1B Digital Pen (discontinued)
• Nokia SU-27W (successor to SU-1B, rebranded Logitech io2[1])
• Logitech io2 Digital Pen
• Logitech io Digital Pen (earlier version, discontinued)
• Maxell Digital Pen (an earlier version might have been discontinued)
• Hewlett-Packard Digital Pen 200 (discontinued) (rebranded Logitech)
• Hewlett-Packard Digital Pen 250
• Fly (pentop computer)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• "Electronic voting 'world first'", BBC News, September 27, 2006. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.
• Stroud, Michael. "DigiPens Search for Write Market", Wired News, December 22, 2002. Retrieved on November 21, 2006.