Editing The Pen Addict 545/transcript (section)

== Scribble Pen ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, first up, should we talk about the scribble pen?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We absolutely should talk about the scribble pen. When should we not talk about the scribble pen? I feel like it's just mandatory, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. So this is a hilarious thing. I was checking my RSS reader yesterday and I was on Mac Rumors, which is a website that I use a lot for my Apple Focus stuff. And they referenced Apple getting a patent for an Apple pencil that can sample color from real world surfaces. This is the logical conclusion for this technology.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is it though? I feel like it's not because what was it last year? We actually saw like the mechanics of like the ink changing version. Do you remember those videos that I got sent?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh yeah, of course I do. That wasn't a logical conclusion. That was an illogical conclusion.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But they're still trying. So I don't know how that we can like drop a conclusion.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But it's not going to work, Brad. We went through this already. It's not going to work.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's really, really not going to work. But now Apple, well, maybe if they're thinking about this digital idea, right? Which is, let's be honest, this is not a new idea, right? But the Apple putting a patent on whatever technology they want to come up with to solve this problem, if we're even going to go that far, of pointing a device at an orange peel and pulling it up digitally. Okay, well, you know, Apple's got a pretty good track record of solving problems.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This would be a really great feature for an Apple pencil. Like people are saying, like, what Apple pencil three might be and like this kind of thing would be genius. Now, the thing is, this is just a patent. So, you know, stuff like this may never happen, right? But they just they just patent it because it's an idea that they had. They also filed a patent in June 2020 for a very similar thing, which would suggest that they maybe are getting closer to it because they've they in 2020, they filed a patent for a computer system with a color sampling stylus. Okay, that was and now they've filed another patent for this type of technology. And so that could suggest that they are maybe zoning in on what it can and can't do and how they want to how they want it to work. Like now it's like an optical sensor for color and texture. Right. So like it could be like a little camera. So you could say, you know, you're saying your orange peel like in theory, right? You could use that sensor and then you could like paint what is effectively an orange peel with bumps in it and stuff. So this is I think would be a very smart thing for them to do. I think would would would be a really cool product with a really cool demo. Right. That was the whole enticement of the scribble pen in the first place. It has a cool demo. So do I think they will do this? I think it's very possible that they will do something like this. Yes. Will it be next year? Probably not.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And it's also what? $299, $399. Like this is going to be like a premium, you know, tool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe. Yeah. Maybe this could be like Apple Pencil Pro. I don't think it would be that kind of price, Brad, but I think maybe like $150 instead of $100 or whatever. Yeah. But hey, they continue to surprise me with pricing. So who knows?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. The funniest thing is the comment section of the Mac Rumors, which, you know, we never recommend to read comment sections, but I scrolled down and just kind of ran into it. Scribble pen all up in the comment section. Amazing. Just people mentioning the scribble. Do you remember the scribble? Like, like this, just like this failure. Like it's this whole thing, like even outside of our little world, because it was, it's essentially, it was a technology device, right? So there's definitely some like crossover ideas for the scribble pencil. And it was such a big, you know, the original, such a big scammy Kickstarter, you know, it was aggregated everywhere because it was so stupid that people still just, anytime they see any kind of like device color picking and everyone goes scribble pen. And it's just hilarious. All right. Speaking of pen, Myke, I want to talk real quick about the pen. Have you seen the pen?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've read your review of the pen.