File this under Reporters' Tools. A press release landed in my in-box this week from
Realeyes3D touting its new applications that allow you to use a photo phone to take a picture of a handwritten message, digitize it, manipulate it, and send the handwritten message to others. Basically, this is phone software to enhance the capabilities of a photo phone to turn it into a scanner. While the company is marketing the consumer benefits of the products (such as sending personalized postcards via phone), I can see some nice journalistic applications -- say, scanning documents while at a government office and phoning them back to your editor in the newsroom. Another: A reporter sitting in a courtroom could scribble notes on a pad of paper, then phone them back to the office. Or a courtroom artist could send in a sketch and have it ready to publish the minute the pencil drawing is complete.
(Note:
Larry Larsen had an
item earlier this week on similar technology.)
Frequently we have brainstorming sessions and cover whiteboards with scribblings...
