Scratch-n-Scroll noteable mousepad puts the "do" back in "To Do" list
By Darren Murph 
posted September 6th 2009 4:42PM
posted September 6th 2009 4:42PM
posted September 6th 2009 4:42PM
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Now, get him!
Isn't this based on a toy I had when I was a kid? It was a drawing tablet with a thin sheet of plastic over some kind of black sticky surface. You could "draw" on it using a plastic pen and then erase all of your doodles by lifting the plastic sheet. Talk about recycling old tech....
loser
clocker: are you talking about Magnedoodle? Cause if you are, you win.
Levi: No, not magnadoodle. Clocker's talking about the childhood toy that TavisJohn better describes below--basically a waxy piece of black cardboard covered by a translucent plastic sheet. Pressing on the plastic sheet with a stylus of some sort makes the black cardboard show through. I had one as a kid as well.
Poor man's Magnadoodle. Yeah, I think I got one from Red Robin's as a kid.
Recycled tech? This badboy's got multitouch!
this is one of those why didn't i think of this inventions....it looks pretty cool, i would buy this if i needed a new mouse pad
this is one of those why didn't i think of this inventions...because it's impractical and nobody will actually use it
It's not useful at all if I need to save my notes.
That Blackberry Storm2 Post-it dude is gonna get furious over this.
He will throw his sponge at you when he sees this.
At the end of your frag sessions ~ "huh?? where did my notes go"
I was wondering how easy the notes erase
People still use mousepads?
my thoughts exactly. that desk under the mousepad looks just as smooth
First thing that came to mind, lasers work just as good on a wood surface and there's no height difference.
My laser mouse doesn't work on my granite counter top. So yes, I still use a mouse pad.
Gamers do.
Get a BlueTrack mouse and you won't have to worry about mouse pads ever again.
I had to start using a mouse pad when I noticed that my mouse's pads were starting to rub away some of my desk's paint.
How can anyone not use mousepads anymore? As much as I use my computer, it's gonna wear down any surface.
My mouse wears out the varnish on my wood desk, so I still need one.
So were are the other entries in this crapgadget post?
Agreed. My first thought was wow! great idea! then i thought, when was the last time i used a mousepad like that.
Also this product isnt for sale yet, they need 250 "pre-orders" before they make them for real. also, you have to wait " at least 6 weeks for manufacturing"
seems to be capacitive, better than resistive! please no replies because I don't want my inbox to fill up, but you can downrank.
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Umm.. you can have it not e-mail you when someone replies.
no, no more internetz.
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Sooo.... Someone saw their kid using one of those wax covered cardboard with a plastic sheet toys & thought, "Mousepad!"
Go to the dollar store and get one of those kids toys instead. It will cost you a dollar, and you will not loose your notes when you move your mouse.
At first glance did anyone else read "...as the geniuses over at Quirky have popped out..." with pooped instead of popped
If you're sitting at your PC... why wouldn't you... you know, TYPE your note, instead of scribbling with your finger?
I just use a pad of paper as my mousepad, so I can jot notes and diagrams on it. It's way better than typing for math equations, circuit diagrams, etc.
This is a step away from awesomeness if it just digitized the notes down a swanky usb cable and had a simple app on the other end to catalog them and provide searching by date, day, time or even OCR of the notes.... also... e-mail.
Throw in a plugin or something to link it to the windows snip app as an overlay or something and I'll give you a few tenners for it.
yes a product that is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist
Great, somewhere to keep my passwords
Fail.
My "mousepad" is a Wacom tablet. If I want to jot down a note, I can type with a keyboard or use handwriting recognition and write with the pen. That's more useful than this.
Better than the previous Scratch n Sniff version that smells like mouse droppings!
Anyone else notice that the MacBook/Pro has been "debranded"?
Could be better but not bad for the price
So since this is based on that old toy, wouldnt the mouse feet also "scratch" on the pad?
The Deluxe Scratch & Scroll is being released next week. It used to be called the Etch-A-Sketch!