Recently, I bought an interesting gadget, a Boogie Board (I bought from This Taobao Merchant). The board is designed to be the paper and pen replacement, temporarily. Quote from it’s official web site,
“The next time you reach for a piece of paper and a pen – Don’t! Grab a Boogie Board instead, the tree-friendly alternative to memo pads, sketchbooks, sticky notes, dry erase boards and other writing/drawing mediums that can be re-used over 50,000 times!”
Sounds good right? Wait, there’s a catch. It can’t save the data, so a simple click will erase your writing/drawing completely. But this thing can still be very useful, for example, it’s perfect for calculation or recording a phone number while answering a call.
The pad reacts fast and accurately, and it displays thin or thick lines depending on pen pressures, a cool feature. However, sometimes I feel it too sensitive, because it can easily generate some “noise” footprint when I occasionally put my hand on the pad. The pen is made of plastic, I even tried using toothpick and it worked perfectly :) Although you should avoid sharp materials. The pad is very durable, it’s driven by a watch battery and claimed to be usable for 50000 times of erasure.
I actually tried two models, one is the US model which is available in the United States (Amazon), I get it from a friend, the other is a Far East model, which is mainly for China market. Both models are the same, except the different captions in the title.
The following are the image of the two models I tried:
Two Boogie Board Models
