Digital Paper. Trippy.

Whoa. Check this out. We met with a woman today who’s doing research around digital interfaces for learning technologies such as this one.

But a Swedish startup called Anoto has developed a new approach. A few weeks ago in Boston, I met an Italian named Nino Tarantino, who is one of Anoto’s business development VPs. Tarantino took what looked like one of those overly fat pens that Europeans love so much, wrote a message on a yellow Post-it note, entered an e-mail address in some squares at the bottom of the note, and checked a box marked “e-mail” and another marked “send.” That was it. His note — handwriting, doodles, and all — was captured and sent as a graphical e-mail.

Fascinating stuff. What I want to know is how this could be adapted to integrate haptic feedback for the visually-impaired. This is the kind of product and interaction design I’m really, really interested in…