FLY Fusion Virtual Pen

I saw a commercial for this really cool device called the FLY Fusion the other day. This link will send you to the website, but YouTube also has a pretty cool demo of what it's capable of here. Essentially what it does is digitally captures anything you write inside the pen (as long as you write on the FLY paper) and allows you to upload it to your computer in seconds. Of course there are a whole slew of other cool things you can do with the FLY Fusion but that is the basic idea. I could waste more time explaining it to you, but its much easier to understand if you just check out the clip.

Once you grasp how the device works, you can really see how useful it can be in terms of education. All that time spent scanning hand-written documents and screwing around with Adobe Reader is gone. It has its own text conversion software that will turn your handwriting into digital text. The only concern I have is with how easily it recognizes the handwriting. I know I have fairly messy handwriting, so the program would have to be really smart to differentiate between not just my "U's" and my "V's" but even my "R's" and my "M's". One interesting note about the FLY Fusion is that it is aimed primarily toward kids (I saw the commercial on YTV). I wonder how it would make standard lecture note-taking more efficient?