Although digital equipment is more and more developed, it has even replaced many necessities in life. But for digital users who prefer to use traditional pen and paper for writing, it seems not easy to make a choice between digital products and traditional paper and pen.
Equil Smart Pen can synchronize all the content written by the author to your mobile device, and it does not need to rely on a special notebook. What kind of experience can be brought to us by the seamless connection from paper to digital? Let's have a look.
Basic parameters
Positioning technology: infrared and ultrasonic
Sampling rate: 80 times/Sec
Pressure sensing level: 600 levels
Supported operating systems: iOS 5 or Above , Mac OS 10.7~10.9, Win XP ~ 8, Android
Transmission: Bluetooth 4.0
Support App.: Equity Note/Equity sketch (Drop Box/iCloud service) iOS, Mac, PC
Hardware parameters
Digital pen
receiver
Battery: lithium battery 3.7V/410mAh
Endurance: 8 hours continuous operation
Receiver RAM: 4G, can store 10000 pages of manuscripts
Including charging seat size: 160 (L) X 34 (D) X 29 (H) mm
Unpacking
The packaging of Equil smart pen does not have much scientific and technological content. It is a traditional paper release structure.
There is a pair of "graffiti" on the front. It is easy to place your pen on a children's product when you meet for the first time.
The product information bar code is on the back of the packaging box and supports "impression notes, App Store, Google play". Yes, English speakers have to scratch their heads again with the introduction in English.
Remove the outer "cover", a pure white box.
There is only one brand LOGO on the top of the white box.
The packaging box adopts the magnetic sealing bonding method
Open the package, an unknown object with the length of a neutral pen appears in front of you.
Accessory box and Equil intelligent pen body.
A thick bound manual. It seems that it is still difficult to play with Yigui Pen.
After looking through it, I found that the manual contains 11 languages, including English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Italian, French, etc. It is puzzling that as the Chinese version, it is very international. The question is why Simplified Chinese is ranked behind English and Korean. It seems that this version with Chinese characteristics is not in place.
Transparent iPad clip makes it easy to install the receiver to write directly on the screen.
There is a silver gray, magnetic strip structure on the top of the fixing clip, and there is an Equil brand logo on the lower right corner.
The installation diagram is well integrated with the iPad.
There are also two iPad touch refills, which are made of ordinary plastic, and the tip is smooth to avoid damaging the screen.
Finally, a family photo is presented, including the Yigui pen set, multilingual instructions, iPad clip, USB charging cable and iPad touch pen refill.
Product appearance
The whole outer layer of the triangular prism shaped suit is covered with a folded protective sleeve. The protective sleeve is made of imitation leather and has a skin like coating on the surface. The overall feel is very good.
On the front of the case, there is an Equil brand logo. When the protective sleeve is closed by magnetic coating, a crisp sound feedback can be obtained, giving a feeling of being stuck in place.
Open the protective case, which can be divided into three parts: charging base, receiver and digital pen.
The digital pen holder is on the top of the charging base, and both ends are stuck in the base, ensuring stability.
There are two card slots on the top of the right end of the base to facilitate the user to take out the digital pen.
Compared with the digital pen, the receiver is better integrated with the base.
There is a big gap in the middle of the base. This is the key to take out the receiver. Just pull it out forcefully.
Igui pen set: receiver, digital pen and charging base.
Charging base
The charging base not only charges left and right, but also supports the skeleton, making the receiver and digital pen integrated and easy to carry.
It is easy to observe two copper charging electric shocks after taking away the receiver.
The contacts are not so simple. A neutral refill is hidden on the top as a spare.
There are two interfaces at the right end of the base, one charging jack and one pen cartridge eject switch.
There is a push-pull switch on the other side of the base. Push outward to eject the pen case.
receiver
The receiver is a trapezoidal structure, with power supply and Bluetooth indicator on the front, two symmetrical holes on the left and right, which should be ultrasonic, and a triangular translucent infrared receiving window in the middle.
There is a Bluetooth switch on the back, and there are three modes of "off, iOS, and other devices".
There is a small switch on the charging shock, which corresponds to the ABS contact of the charging base. Pull out the receiver from the base to complete the startup.
There is a gray power button on the top of the receiver and an Equil brand logo beside it.
On the right is a function button and a ring LED light, which can be used to create a new page with one key.
The bottom is pasted with a fake leather protective layer, and the front part can be opened with magnetism, which is convenient for clamping paper.
Digital pen
Three segment prismatic shape, with gray transparent plastic at both ends and ABS material in the middle.
There is a switch in the middle to activate the digital ratio.
The transparent top is LED light. Press the switch or write on an object (paper, flat, etc.), and the digital pen will make a weak "squeak" sound (ultrasonic). If there is no sound in the writing state, the digital pen is abnormal.
Just looking at the nib part, there are many checks for digital pens and ordinary neutral pens. The sudden transition between the pen core and the shell, plus 2 or 3 times the weight of the neutral pen, makes writing less comfortable than ordinary pens.
Positioning capture science popularization
Equil smart pen adopts the positioning technology of combination of ultrasonic and infrared (ultrasonic positioning, infrared positioning).
The positioning principle of ultrasonic positioning technology is the same as that of GPS positioning technology. Ultrasonic positioning is to use ultrasonic to measure the distance between the point to be measured and the fixed point. However, the attenuation of ultrasonic transmission in the air is great, and the transmission distance is short. If the reflective ranging method is used, the measurement distance is shorter, which limits the scope of ultrasonic positioning; In addition, when the reflective type is used, since the fixed point is always in the state of transmitting ultrasonic waves, no matter whether the point to be located needs to be located or not, the power consumption is also wasted.
Getting started
In order to use the Equil Smart Pen better, you need to download the supporting application.
Equil Note： It is mainly used to create and store handwritten notes, as well as other content and highlight notes, and tag notes so that they can be searched at any time.
Equil Sketch： Capture sketches in each phase to quickly add or remove operations with layers as you work and in the future.
For users accustomed to electronic devices, the Equil Smart Pen also supports direct writing on tablets, mobile phones and other devices. Of course, the Equil receiver needs to be correctly installed before "flying dragons and flying phoenix".
Connect the clip to the top of the iPad and center it around the front camera of the iPad.
Attach the receiver to the clip by magnetic attachment.
In order not to damage the LCD screen, the ink pen should be replaced with an iPad handwriting refill.
In order to better identify the writing area and increase work efficiency, the screen should be calibrated before starting.
Finish all the preparatory work, and then you can write all kinds of books. Due to the software bug, the writing position and the display position have a great deviation, which has caused a lot of trouble. After communication, the official quickly launched a repair version.
Although it is now convenient to save notes in the cloud, it cannot be denied that some users like to use pen and paper to write down their ideas or meeting extracts. For those who like to take notes in an old-fashioned style, the Equil Smart Pen also supports recording the content written by users on paper, saving the time for users to take notes after writing.
Compared with writing on the iPad, the preparation for writing on paper is much easier. Just clamp the receiver in the middle of the top of the paper.
While writing on paper, the iPad terminal displays synchronously. For the special situation where digital devices are no longer around, the Equil smart pen has its own 4G memory, which can store nearly 10000 pages of manuscripts offline.
summary
advantage
Insufficient
Text transcription function needs to be optimized;
The writing pen is slightly bulky;
Ultrasound will affect some animals (small animals at home);
Keep the receiver and writing pen unblocked
For digital users who prefer to use traditional pen and paper to write, devices such as the Equil smart pen should be more popular. Compared with the similar products on the market (Livescribe), Equil has transcended the limitations of specific papers, and made corresponding adjustments to the domestic writing habits, integrating the receiver and stylus well, which is easy to carry. For those users who have no hard requirements, the price of about 1000 yuan still has some pressure.
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