Boogie Board is a product line of paperless notaking tools, utilizing an LCD in conjunction with a

stylus A stylus (plural styli or styluses) is a writing utensil or a small tool for some other form of marking or shaping, for example, in pottery. It can also be a computer accessory that is used to assist in navigating or providing more precision w ...

, finger, or other implement to replicate the functionality of pen and paper. Boogie Board is developed by Kent Displays Incorporated, based on research conducted at Kent State University.

Technology

Boogie board is based on reflex display technology, i.e.

LCD A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly but in ...

s that use cholesteric liquid crystal technology to reflect light in one state, and to be dark (non-reflecting) in the other state. The dark state occurs when no voltage is applied (voltage is needed to keep the light areas of the image reflecting). Responsiveness has been compared to that of writing on paper. Drawings can be hard to see without illumination. Battery lifespan is estimated at 50,000 erasures.

Digitization

Some higher end models add a

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panel, allowing the user's input to be saved as a

PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...

. The board itself does not allow direct review of stored pages. On models lacking internal digitization, capture is achieved through a smartphone camera using a Mobile app, though quality through this method is low.

Marketing

Boogie Boards are marketed as having uses like writing, drawing, and taking notes. Some models are designed to replicate the form factor of specific notetaking devices, such as the

sticky note A Post-it Note (or sticky note) is a small piece of paper with a re-adherable strip of glue on its back, made for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces. A low-tack pressure-sensitive adhesive allows the notes to be easil ...

. One model was released exclusively in Brookstone stores.

References

{{Reflist Tablet computers Electronic paper technology