Quickies — MIT's Intelligent Sticky Notes 124
Iddo Genuth writes to mention that MIT researchers have made their first pass at bringing the common yellow post-it note into the digital age. Using a combination of artificial intelligence, RFID, and ink recognition, the team hopes to make the digital version as ubiquitous as possible. "The Quickie application not only allows users to browse their notes, but also lets users search for specific information or keywords. Using a freely available commonsense knowledge engine and computational AI techniques, the software processes the written text and determines the relevant context of the notes, categorizing them appropriately. "The system uses its understanding of the user's intentions, content, and the context of the notes to provide the user with reminders, alerts, messages, and just-in-time information" - said the inventors. Additionally, each Quickie carries a unique RFID tag, so that it can be easily located around the house or office. Therefore, users can be sure never to lose a bookmarked book or any other object marked with a Quickie."
Re:Sometimes simplicity... (Score:4, Interesting)
I was going to post "That's so stupid"... (Score:5, Interesting)
So how about instead of bitching I try to come up with some constructive criticism. How about the opposite, a little sticky-note printer that will spit out whatever is highlighted on your current screen and apply a little glue to the back side on the way out, ready for immediate deployment.
The form-factor should be such that it can fit into a hard-drive slot on your PC--and it can slide open like a CDROM for refilling consumables.
It should work both vertically and horizontally.
There, run with it and make your $millions.
Re:Sometimes simplicity... (Score:3, Interesting)
1) You write your note on the same kind of pad you'd buy in your local office supplies store (it just happens to sit on top of some sort of pressure scanner)
2) The cheap ass pad of post-it notes has cheap ass RFID's on them so it's a pretty simple step to make the computer know exactly where they are on your wall whenever you want it to.
Where in that whole process did you have to do something you wouldn't of normally done? Do you need to move around your post-it note pad constantly or something?
Of course for you the same thing could be achieved by pointing an appropriate camera at your wall but not everyone uses post-it notes the same.
The RFID thing is obviously brilliant if you've ever lost an important post-it note. The only downfall is the possible security/privacy concerns of digitizing such information(passwords on post it notes for instance).