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if you're anything like me
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you've likely never heard of the company
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you probably don't even know that their
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that's not to say that it's not insanely
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i didn't know anything about it until a
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few weeks ago and i was made aware that
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they're bringing this particular
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technology over to not just chromebooks
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pen initiative as well so what is it
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well they have this sensor on a pen that
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they make that works with
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ios and ipad os that allows for users to
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and physically touch it on objects in
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the real world grab the color from that
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immediately put it onto a screen so
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imagine if you're using some sort of
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app where you need to paint something
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and you love the color of
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that particular chair or a painting or
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something like that you literally touch
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the pen to that thing
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it grabs the pantone color from the real
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world and does its best to replicate it
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right there on the screen but it
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requires bluetooth connection it
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you know apps that work alongside with
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ios and ipad os what is significant at
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is the fact that something like this pen
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again this isn't a full production unit
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but this pen a usi stylus that would
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work with chromebooks and any other usi
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has the technology built in it that
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eufro has made for their pens that work
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on ipads and stuff like that
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and it doesn't need bluetooth it doesn't
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need any extra connection it doesn't
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other than for you to touch the back of
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and then begin writing on the screen no
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further connections are needed
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no further technologies and honestly it
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feels a little bit like
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magic and pete mueller the chairman of
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usi was kind enough to send over this
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and a chromebook that already kind of
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has some tweaks made to it so that
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work already because this won't be
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coming to later in the year and
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we've gotten to play with it and i'm not
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going to lie this is one of the coolest
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things i've ever seen so
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let's check it out okay so to give you
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an example of how this whole thing works
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we've got the stylus i found a nice
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of a rubik's cube and then i mixed up
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the rubik's cube we throw into shots all
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and this is just obviously a for
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instance so i i don't draw
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or paint or anything like that but for
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anyone who does and says you know i want
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those colors on this screen the one
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thing you got to remember is
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this is grabbing pantone color so the
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color space is different for the real
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world and real eyes and real objects
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than it is when you have to move it over
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to digital so you move to a
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hex code or an rgba code and it's just
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it's a different color space
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but it's going to get it relatively
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close and help people to
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paint stuff that they see in the real
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world so let's continue with our example
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make this look like the one we've got on
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the table here so first i'm going to
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so i'm just going to touch the back of
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this and as soon as i hover close to the
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you'll see the dot pop up so it's that
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and let's see what other greens we got
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we got a green there green there green
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and i think that's about it showing
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right now and then i want a blue
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so boom hit blue hover close you see the
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up and we're gonna click these here here
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here and you're starting to get the idea
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pretty quickly of how this works it's
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kind of like magic and again i want to
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that this is all happening i didn't pair
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this thing up with this i don't even
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know if the bluetooth is on on this
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again pete sent us this chromebook
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that's kind of prototyped and has some
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these particular pieces of software to
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actually understand what the pin is
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but apart from that there's nothing else
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going on here there's no bluetooth
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connection this pen didn't have to be
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paired up with this chromebook
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it just showed up like this and because
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standard that sends all of the
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information from the pen
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to the device to the screen itself all
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of that stuff is encoded and carried
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that one single connection so for the
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end user it's that simple
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you'll get this pin you'll flip it on
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and you'll start grabbing color
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and writing on the screen for apps that
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utilize the api for this and so
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any app that takes color will be able to
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utilize this if they want to include the
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and so you imagine we start seeing all
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kinds of pins from companies like wall
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top which is what this one is
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and and other usi pen makers that say
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yeah we want to make this with eufrows
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technology we'll have that sensor right
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on the back of the pen
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you can just start grabbing colors from
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all over the place and just like magic
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grab colors from the real world and then
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move them right to your screen
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and honestly it's it's one of the
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coolest pieces of tech we've seen it's
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so cool that it works without any
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additional connections
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and it's even more cool that it's
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working on chromebooks already
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expect to see this actually rolling out
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to the market towards the end of this
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there's still some kinks to be worked
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out but ultimately it's working it's
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and we're so glad to see something that
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is uh just this forward-looking and this
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happening on a chromebook but guys
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