STARWALKER PEN
Montblanc rediscovers the art of handwriting
Montblanc’s new Augmented Paper notebook uses a technology known as electromagnetic resonance to transfer your notes from paper to screen
If you’ve ever felt that those Escher-like doodles that you made during a meeting deserved a larger audience, then Montblanc’s new Augmented Paper notebook will blow your mind. But first things first: the name is a bit misleading. The real innovation is in the revamped Starwalker pen that comes with the set, which uses a technology known as electromagnetic resonance to transfer your notes from paper to screen. You write with the smartpen and, together with a tablet hidden inside the leather booklet, it will remember your pen strokes. It’s similar to the technology used by Wacom that has for years sold its pens and tablets to illustrators so their digital files could retain a hand-drawn quality. How that affects people who write, though, has been a decidedly niche proposition. For the Augmented Paper set, Montblanc teamed up with Wacom to make a modified version of the Starwalker pen that would replicate the technology, but on paper instead of a tablet. Taken individually, everything...
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