This is a digital pen. Attach the doodad to a piece of paper* or a clipboard and turn it on. Write on the paper with the special pen. Your handwritten notes, sketches, doodles, diagrams, happy faces, and otherwise random jottings are captured into the receiver's 1GB flash memory.
Later, jack into a computer and examine the electronic files. In their native state, the ELI files are graphical representations of your notepad pages. Throw them at the character recognition program and they are converted into editable text or word processing files with embedded images.
I am evaluating this technology to see if it might streamline the process of capturing my astronomy observing notes, written in the field, often at the telescope, and immediately capturing my sketches or drawings of what I'm seeing in the eyepiece.
I'm a little disappointed that it cannot be used "live," i.e. as a pointing device. It could then convert a laptop into a tablet PC... But that's a nice-to-have.
* (Any paper works with the zPen. No special paper is required. Just use A4 or letter-size paper, lined, blank, whatever. Landscape or portrait.)
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