Technabob » note

Post-It Note Watch: A Constant Reminder

Range — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:00:25 +0000

Are you the type of person who tends to have a bunch of Post-It notes stuck all over the place? If you’re looking for a great way to do so, and never lose track of your notes, check out the Post-It Note Watch. It will allow you to simply stick your notes around your wrist.

I guess these notes are also for the people who usually write stuff on their hands in order to help them remember. Designed by by Dorian Favre, Post-It Note Watches work like a temporary bracelet, which will keep your hands clean of ink, no matter how many notes you write.

A pad of 100 Post-It Note Watches sells for €9,80 (~$13.60 USD) over at PA Design.

[via Fancy via Swissmiss]

Light Switch Sticky Notes Remind You to Turn Off the Lights

Hazel Chua — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:00:47 +0000

I used to stick Post-It notes on our refrigerator door, cabinet, mirror, computer monitor, and possibly a hundred other different locations when I wanted to leave a note for my sister on those occasions that I would be sleeping by the time she got home and she would still be in bed when I would be leaving for work.

It used to be a lot of work, trying to think of the place that she would most likely spot my note. But something that helps take the guesswork out of the entire process? Light switch sticky notes!

Light switches might not be the first thing a person notices when he or she steps into a room, but it’s definitely something that a person is bound to see sooner or later.

I mean, take me for example. I don’t really look at the light switch, but when I go to the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth, it’s the first thing my hand gravitates to. When I enter the kitchen to fix some breakfast, out goes my hand to flick the light switch on.

And when it grazes that small sheet of paper by the switch, then bingo! Message transmission successful!

The brainchild of the Light Switch Sticky Notes is Jihyang Lee and they’re currently available for £7.50 (~$12) from Suck UK. (I know, weird name to call a store.)

[via Craziest Gadgets]

Icon Notepad Highlights the Duality of Note Taking

Shane McGlaun — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:36:53 +0000

I don’t write anything down if I can get around it. I have a budget I follow each month to keep me from blowing all my money on gadgets and car parts. I could write it down old school style, but I use Excel so it can do the calculations for me. If I need to go to the grocery store, I have my wife text the list to me. I can’t read my own handwriting, so it’s all digital for me.

If you like to use digital stuff to take notes and write things as well, but occasionally have to hand write things out you will like the Icon notebook from Barcelona Spain’s BrigadaCreativa. This thing is sort of a symbol of the duality of writing today. It’s an old school paper notepad, but it looks like a digital icon you would find on a computer.

The notepad can be had in a three pack for about $24 (USD) or in a single for about $10. The pads have 80-pages inside and are DIN A5 size pages measuring 148mm x 210mm. The only downside if you need normal paper is that the folded over corner apparently means the pages are flat on one corner as well.

Take Note of Takara Tomy’S New Dsi Accessory

Alisha K. — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:52:04 +0000

If you feel the need to ugly up your Nintendo DSi, Takara Tomy has a creative way of managing it: magic film note stickers. What? Exactly.

These Memo Film notepad stickers actually aren’t a bad idea; there’s definitely plenty of reason to take notes while grinding away at one of the DS’s lengthy RPGs. But for ¥399 ($4.19), you can’t really expect amazing quality.

Not that we’d get any potentially useful accessories in the U.S. anyway, and that includes these. Want ‘em? Import ‘em. And let me know what notes you’re so desperate to take.

[via TinyCartridge]

Nintendo Guerilla (or is That Gorilla) Advertising

Technabob — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:49:44 +0000

Check out these recently sighted Nintendo ads comprised of thousands of individual sticky notes used to create giant versions of The Big N’s classic gaming icons.

Taking some obvious inspiration from this earlier video game Post-it art, the colored notes were used to create pixelated versions of Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda and other gaming characters. Each individual note could be removed by passersby, revealing a small advertisement for the Wii’s virtual console.

From what I can find out, these photos were snapped a few weeks back somewhere in Italy. Hopefully, we’ll see this clever campaign rolled out to other locations sometime in the future.

[via The Serif]

Iogear Digital Scribe: Record Notes From Any Surface

Technabob — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:44:32 +0000

I’ve seen plenty of devices that let you record digital notes, but all of the ones I know of require either special paper, special ink or a special pad. The IOGEAR Wireless Digital Scribe (GPEN200N) is the device I’ve come across that can capture handwriting from any surface.

The device is comprised of a small wireless receiver that clips onto any notepad, along with a special digital pen that takes ordinary ink cartridges. The pen has its own internal memory for storage, and can upload captured data to your computer via USB 1.1 or 2.0 for later editing, annotation or coloring. In addition, when connected to a computer, it can capture directly into the PC in real time. Expected to be released sometime in Spring 2007, the wireless version will run $130, with a wired version expected to run about $80.

[via Wired Gadget Lab]