Anoto unveils Bluetooth pen

Ericsson and startup Anoto introduced a pen that will allow hand-written notes to be sent over the Internet from a mobile phone.

The device - which contains a digital camera, an image processing unit and a Bluetooth radio transceiver - uses normal ink and special digital paper. The camera calculates its position in relation to the paper and stores a virtual image of the writing in the pen's memory that can be wirelessly transferred, via Bluetooth, to a mobile phone, PC or PDA.

The first commercial devices are expected to be available by next year.

More details are located at www.zdnet.co.uk.