Tyler’s Weblog

So I am not too sure how “new” this techonology is, but I just heard about it. I don’t really watch too much tv but the past week I have seen commercials for a new… toy? tool? writing untensil? I don’t really know. Its called the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer and it is… a pen. Not just any pen though! This pen can help with math homework, translate spanish, play mp3s, and even creating word documents out of the notes you wrote down by hand. Again, I do not know how new this thing acutally is, I have heard of a pen that helps with spanish translations, but this pen can be personalized with tons of programs, your own music and your own handwriting. The pen can talk to you! By taking notes on the notebook (which looks like a real notebook) that comes with the pen, it can tell what you write and send it to a computer. Small dots on the page tell the computer where you have written. This thing makes me wish I wasn’t graduating in two weeks so I could by it and use it. I’ll probably by it anyways without justification.

I never would have thought a pen could do work for you. Think about it… all you have to do is write things, and it will basically tell you what to write. What the heck more can a pen do without doing the work for you? I think that technology like this pen are is going to do one of two things. Either creativity will rise because technology will take away the problems with actually creating things. If you can think it, you can find the technology to do it. OR creativity will begin to decline. Think about it. If we want a pen to do our homework, what else can we get it to do? Write movies? Create art? All we have to do is ask… What do we want technology to do and what do we want to keep for ourselves?