Digitalize What You Write Immediately - airpenMINI

A famous Japanese news site, "Gigazine" reported how Pentel's new "airpenMINI" was revolutionary device for all who want to pursue mobility, agility and flexibility for a digital media. Here's an extract from the article:

Many people still love to use a pen because it allows you to write a memo and a picture, doesn't require boot time, and resist water and some physical shocks. It's really a mobile media. This new digital gadget, "airpenMINI" has all such features while it's a digital device. Good thing is that it doesn't require any special paper for digital recording.
When you wanted to digitalize a memo on your paper pad, you needed to scan the pad to digitalize what you wrote. It's a kind of burdensome and many tend to give up to do so. However, this "airpenMINI", allows you to store your memo on cyber space without any additional work, by its censor and software. You will never miss what you put on the paper and will immediately find what you want to see.
Thus, "airpenMINI" will be a perfect solution for the people who want to store any information on PC while keeping a pen and paper.

"Gigazine" explains how it works, with a lot of pictures in a real demo. "airpenMINI" does not only record what you write as a digitalized picture, but also recognize the characters on the paper with high accuracy. The article is written in Japanese but you can understand its innovativeness from pictures.