The e-Pens Create is, as the name suggests, aimed at designer and artist types, and comes with a wired sensor and a bundled copy of Serif Draw Plus. The company offers two different digital pens. In addition, it can also function as a wireless mouse.Į-Pens’ secret lies in the small sensor you must put on the top of any page or area you intend to write, doodle or draw on. For the end user, the difference that matters is that Logitech’s pen required special ‘digital paper’ (real paper, but with an invisible dot pattern imprinted on it), while e-Pens’ device works with any old scrap – or indeed, any writable surface at all. You might think Logitech got there first in 2003 with its now-discontinued io Digital Pen, which also wrote to real paper at the same time as interpreting a digital copy, but the two technologies are fundamentally different. Today we’re taking a look at a peripheral that combines the best of both worlds: e-Pens’ Mobile Notes, a digital pen with ink that can write on normal paper too. From graphics tablets to stylus interfaces to handwriting recognition, the tool that’s mightier than the sword sticks with us tenaciously. No matter how far we move into the digital age, we just can’t seem to get rid of the good old pen.