Meet The Post-it Notes for the Digital Millenium
I’m not going to lie, I love post-it notes. Nothing is quite as easy, and once they’ve served their purpose you simply toss them away. Simple and effective.
But the big brains at MIT decided they could improve on the Post-It note by bringing it up to speed with the rest of the digital world. The software, entitled “Quickies” digitizes your Post-it notes and stores it in a database where it can accomplish a number of feats including sending SMS messages with notifications to your friends, automatically updating a calendar or to-do list, track objects with RFID tags, and even provide answers to questions.
Check out the video to see it in action.
The system works by integrating OCR software and digital pens for handwriting recognition. The software then determines what kind of note the user is writing, and what subsequent course of action to take.
This seems like a radical step foward for, well, sticky-notes. As mundane as that can sound, I think this will be a really useful tool in the future, especially for all the GTD buffs out there.
You can find out more about this, and other projects at MIT’s Ambient Intelligence Group
