Veselin Jevrosimović: More and more ordinary things will be connected to the internet!

- We are seeing more and more items getting called "smart", radically changing their usefulness. After the phone, bracelets, clocks, cars, houses and even entire energy networks, I am sure that only a few items will remain "dumb" in the foreseeable future - wrote Veselin Jevrosimovic

Every week, Veselin Jevrosimovic, the owner of Comtrade, writes in his column of the daily newspaper "Informer" about new trends in the world of information technology.

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This time around he discusses the growing number of "smart" devices that will be connected to the Internet, including pens. Here's what he says about the new technology.

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"One of the goals of the phenomenon called " Internet of Things ", about which I wrote about in detail a few months ago, is that more and more objects from our everyday lives be equipped with computer components and related to each other and to the Internet. After all, we see that more and more things are receiving the title of "smart" thus radically changing their usefulness. After the phone, bracelets, clocks, cars, houses and even entire energy networks, I am  sure that only a few items will remain "dumb" in the foreseeable future and continue to operate in the traditional ways  which we are accustomed to.

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One of the items that still resists is the good old pen, however,  since its inception, it has had the most diverse ideas on how to improve it - sometimes very successful, while at times, rather bizarre. In the recent past, we have received several solutions for truly "smart" pens that use special pads for recording your moves  and converting written directly into digital format, including those with special notebooks in which the paper has markers that recognize stylus. Of course, there are digital pens for smart phones and tablets, but none of that has had great success, nor has it brought us any way closer to the simplicity of using pens.

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One technical barrier are the mass and dimensions of the smart pen that must be sufficiently light and small, yet contain electronic components and a battery. Another problem is the accuracy and speed of recording hand movements, and there are a few more aspects associated with writing on various surfaces, digitizing the written, handwriting recognition and so on. Despite numerous challenges, many companies and innovators around the world are trying to come up with a creative solution that will forever change our relationship with handwriting. As always, it is only a matter of time before they succeed in doing so. "

(Telegraf.co.yu / Informer)