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Nuwa Pen is a smart pen that digitizes the words you write on paper as you write them.
The pen uses a standard D1 ballpoint ink cartridge in conjunction with AI, computer vision and motion sensors to digitize every stroke a user writes or doodles on any type of piece of paper. Nuwa Pen will show the pen at CES 2025the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.
Shipping into public beta in February 2025, the Nuwa Pen says it will help people rediscover the joy of writing without losing the productivity of digital applications, bridging the gap between analog and digital in a way that the other devices.
Available for purchase at a special pre-order price of $295 and with more than 5,000 pre-orders to date, CES attendees can try the Nuwa Pen firsthand at CES Unveiled Las Vegas on Sunday, January 5, at Mandalay Bay Hotel, with CES preview media interviews available by appointment on January 6, and at the Venetian Expo, Booth 51272 from January 7 – 10. Watch a short video about the Nuwa Pen here.
There are many, well-documented downsides to humanity's screen-obsessed lives: poor REM sleep, reduced creativity and decreased memory retention. Most people spend eight or more hours per day in front of a computer—often followed by screen use for leisure. A recent growing body of research, however, extols the benefits of handwriting, with clear benefits for thinking and learning as it helps to boost reading and communication skills.
“Writing is one of the most human activities. Many of history's most extraordinary ideas and literature were handwritten, not typed,” said Nuwa Pen CEO and founder Marc Tuiner, in a statement. the world's smartest, most advanced pen that lets people write, work and take meeting notes without looking at the screen.Pen-on-paper lovers get the best of both worlds , because the Nuwa Pen and its free companion app allow users to share, search, and organize handwritten notes with ease.”
How Nuwa Pen Works: Write. Digitize. Sync.
You can take a Nuwa Pen and write on a notebook, journal, loose piece of paper or Post-it note — just like a regular pen.
The Nuwa Pen uses standard D1 ballpoint ink cartridges, while its AI and computer vision-powered cameras track what's written and digitize it in the Nuwa+ companion app. The Nuwa+ app organizes notes into a digital record and typed text that users can sync with their other productivity apps, such as email, calendar and contacts.
Additional features and benefits include:
Digitization, Easy Transcription and Text Conversion: Digitization of notes from physical to digital text, with the freedom to write on any paper and easy transcription from handwritten notes to typed text in a few clicks;
Augmented Notes and Seamless Synchronization: Sync Nuwa Pen notes across multiple devices — smartphone, tablet or computer — and lets the writer add their notes to their calendar, email or contacts apps to include handwritten notes notes in the digital world;
Search Made Simple: No more searching through endless pages of handwritten notes — just type a keyword to find relevant notes;
Sharing and Collaboration: Share Nuwa Pen notes with others and collaborate with them.
Dashboard Writing: Monitors user writing metrics;
Unlimited Storage: Saves the writer's notes forever;
Smart Summary: Nuwa Pen summarizes the writer's notes to keep them organized and on track.
“Unlike most emerging technologies that further push humanity away from reality, the Nuwa Pen takes a bold step back toward authenticity,” Tuinier said. “The Nuwa Pen allows people to write again without missing a beat in the digital world. The future of work and creativity won't revolve around bigger screens or immersive goggles. With the Nuwa Pen, it's as simple as of putting pen to paper.”
The Nuwa Pen is available for pre-order at a special price of $295 now through mid-April 2025.
Founded in 2020, Nuwa Pen is a private company headquartered in Groningen, The Netherlands.
