This is Cool: The Sharpie Liquid Graphite Pencil

[Gin Fushicho]

[citation][nom]chaosgs[/nom] I HATE pencils, HATE HATE HATE. [/citation]

*cough* Kefka *cough*

 

[ryan156]

I go to a fairly prestigious UK university and take History, so you'd think there would be loads of laptops and such, but generally people write on paper, I alternate depending on mood though when I do use my laptop I'm certainly in the minority.

 

[pharge]

[citation][nom]avanpelt[/nom]As a chemical engineering student, I can say that not a single person in my graduating class (120+) regularly used a laptop for note-taking. Maybe in the humanities or social sciences, where notes are more "sentence-like", it is popular, but in the sciences there are far to many equations and pictures to make laptop note-taking effective.[/citation]

I agree.

That is why I got myself a "real" tablet computer. Yea.. it was kind of expensive, but I got to keep most of my notes on my tablets. I even use it to add comments on the papers (PDF files) I downloaded!.

The fun part is when I used my tablet for my presentation, I could actually draw marks during my powerpoint presentation like using a white/black board!...😀

 

[Clintonio]

I use a pen daily, it's not much different to a pencil in application.

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]aceofspades1[/nom]it seems that tomshardware likes to get their news from engadget.[/citation]
Once I figured that out...I go to Engadget for majority of my news and toms for their tech reviews...

 

[mp562]

I agree, for engineering majors, it just won't work, but if you wanted to use a tablet and take notes, that might work. My physics teacher used to do the lecture on his tablet and later post the notes in PDF so it worked out for everyone.

 

[wotan31]

What does this have to do with leet peecee gaming lolwtfbbq that all you kids come here for?? It's a pencil. So what?

 

[wotan31]

What a joke. Dailytech.com for real tech news.

 

[damasvara]

[citation][nom]kamar6[/nom]It can't play Crysis[/citation][citation][nom]isamuelson[/nom]This joke is getting old.[/citation]
Agree, what's that supposed to mean anyway?

 

[Trueno07]

[citation][nom]avanpelt[/nom]As a chemical engineering student, I can say that not a single person in my graduating class (120+) regularly used a laptop for note-taking. Maybe in the humanities or social sciences, where notes are more "sentence-like", it is popular, but in the sciences there are far to many equations and pictures to make laptop note-taking effective.[/citation]

I'm a chemical Engineering student as well and I rarely see laptops in class. Everyone has them, but for taking notes in Physics, Chem, Thermo, etc. A laptop isn't going to cut it.

 

[Mizoguchi]

I sitll hate pens. Pencils are the only things worth writing with. 😀

 

[f-14]

uhm..... yeah.
bic has had erasable pens since the 80's, why is this news? and marcus, you still go to class? all my updater classes are during my work period in the day so i just have them video recorded and complete most of the class online. i do it all with my desktop gamming rig with crisis playing on the other monitor sometimes. i still like pencils tho. shading a doodle drawing with a pen sucks.

 

[particleman]

3 years late to the party Sharpie.....

http://www.associatedcontent.com/ar...liquid_graphite_pencil_versus_pg2.html?cat=35

 

[particleman]

http://www.associatedcontent.com/ar...liquid_graphite_pencil_versus_pg2.html?cat=35

 

[particleman]

Pentech figured this stuff out 3 years ago....google pentech; liquid graphite

 

[caparc]

What's a pencil?

 

[elrodvoss]

I sell these at OfficeMax. We got them as part of our Back To School season. I in-store-used 1 package (2 pack) to test them out.

I like their idea and attempt, but I have noted 2 issues.

1st: I believe the tip to be too thin. Its more like a 0.5mm, I would prefer a 0.7mm. Being that its so thin, it does not seem to "flow" smooth. You do get some fading spots like with ballpoints.

2nd: This may be the biggest issue with High Schools. When you use them on a scantron sheet the "lead" will wipe off.

Example: If I fill in a little circle, I can wipe off (with my finger) a good 75-80% of the lead, even after 10 mins. This may be an issue if you fill out one of those cards and hand it in, only to have it rubbing up against other cards and wiping off enough "lead" to make it unreadable.

 

[Marco925]

What happens if you hold it wrong?

 

[izmanq]

i hope paper with pen/pencil will be obsolete soon, perhaps tablet pc with stylus could be the replacement for them 😀

 

[eddieroolz]

This is very cool. I'd love to try this out.

In classes like criminology or computer science notetaking with a laptop is fine, but for classes like engineering, I'd imagine writing prevails for the foreseeable future.