Did you know the pen you are using is “analog?” Well, once a digital pen arrives on the scene, your trusty old pen suddenly becomes analog. Mobile Digital Scribe from IOGEAR works as a normal pen, but also is tracked by a small device you can clip to your paper pad and then upload to your computer. While not pressure sensitive, it does track position, so you can do something like a trace of a picture and upload it.

The OCR software that comes with it doesn’t perform all that accurately, so for now it may not be the best way to get your handwritten document directly into Word. I don’t know if it can be a front-end for other OCR software, however.

Check out [1] PC Magazine Senior Editor Tim Moynihan’ video review.

List $130. [2] Amazon has it for just over a hundred bucks - and free two day shipping if you are an Amazon Prime member.