Hi Ekaterina, Not sure if this is exactly what your student is looking for, but some of these gadgets may be of some use: http://www.avpartner.com/whiteboards/inklink/default.htm http://www.cross.com/downloads/crosspad_brochure.pdf for a review of this see: http://www.t3.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=14387&subsec tionid=759&subsubsectionid=676 http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/ipen-review.html Hope this is of some help. Regards Lisa --On 14 June 2004 15:25 +0100 "E.Barakhta" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > there is a student who is looking for a device that would transfer his > hand-writing into electronic text. It has to be light/portable as he > intends to attend tutorials with it. He knows everything about pocket PC, > tablet PC and Logitec mouse. For different reasons these devices do not > apply. He heard about some sort of infra-red device that can be attached > to the standard paper and the text that you write with a standard pen is > then transfered into electronic format. He does not remember the name of > a manufacturer or something that might help. Do you have any idea what > that might be? > > Thanks a lot. > Ekaterina Barakhta > Development Officer > CATER > Open University > Walton Hall > Milton Keynes > MK7 6AA ---------------------------------------------- Lisa Gault IT Disability Coordinator Planning and Administration Support University of Bristol Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TJ Tel: 0117 331 6739. Internal: 16739 ---------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask]