AI startup launches smart pen that turns doodling while in a meeting into usable notes

AI startup Flowtica has just unveiled a new AI-powered smart pen that turns doodling into usable notes.

Called Scribe, it’s an AI pen in the sense that it looks like a normal pen and it works like a normal pen, but it’s also connected to an app.

What’s interesting to note is that the startup didn’t try to cram as many features as possible into the pen, which must’ve been tempting.

This means this pen does a few things, but it does them well.

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This smart pen takes the ‘it could’ve been an email’ concept to a whole new level

One of the most accidentally hilarious features of the AI pen is that it gives the old ‘it could’ve been an email’ joke a whole new meaning.

That’s because the pen can indeed transform a meeting into an email.

Translated, if you’re in a meeting that you know you’re gonna have to turn into an email – perhaps with some comments or feedback or instructions – you can use the Flowtica pen for that.

The AI pen can either take digital notes of what was said in a meeting or come up with a reply.

You can even manually write notes with the pen, and those notes get automatically uploaded into an AI app that’s very similar to ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and so on.

And it also includes highlights.

It’s definitely an interesting use of AI that we hadn’t seen before.

A new use of AI

Artificial intelligence has been around for a lot longer than we realize, but most people would probably argue that AI absolutely exploded when ChatGPT was first released in late 2022.

Since then, most tech companies in the world began pivoting towards AI.

Elon Musk did that with his companies by putting extra effort into developing Optimus, and also with xAI and Grok.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta did the same thing, as did Apple and a long list of others, including Microsoft, which invested in OpenAI while also developing its own chatbot for Bing.

However, for the most part, we’re just seeing AI being used to create images of dubious quality or in the form of a glorified digital assistant.

Most AI startups are also only focusing on that.

This pen, for once, offers something different.