Some smart pens are best suited for drawing and some for note taking and that’s where choosing one gets tricky. You write a note, draw a sketch or doodle and, with a kind of magic that none of us fully understand, it appears on your smart device or computer via a dedicated app. Each manufacturer offers a varying degree of functionality but this is essentially what they all have in common. Put simply, they digitise the process of handwriting. In the future, you may find a wry smile creeping across your face as a child brings you a bic – the last pen that truly changed the world – and asks “what is THIS?”.
We are now however in a different era and there’s little doubt that somewhere down the line, a pen without smart capabilities is going to lose its place in society, disappear from our stationary shops to be swapped for replacement cartridges and USB chargers.
