Computer Pens Pricing and Costs

Know what you can expect to pay for PC pens

Pricing of pens for computers varies wildly depending on sophistication and function. A hand-held color scanner pen will cost more than a simple black and white digital character recognition pen. Your basic computer mouse pen is less expensive than high-tech language translation wireless computer pens.

Basically, what you can expect to pay depends on what you are looking for. The following approaches will help you get a good idea of computer pens pricing and costs:

1. Plan on spending between $50 and $100 for a computer mouse pen.
2. Buy an OCR computer digital pen for between $120 and $200.
3. Take notes with a mobile digital scribe computer pen, priced between $100 and $200.
   

 

Spend between $50 and $100 to replace your standard mouse with a computer mouse pen

A computer mouse pen is highly recommended for people who suffer from shoulder pain or carpal tunnel because of a regular mouse. You can buy both wired and wireless versions. These computer pens simulate the natural motion of writing with a pen, and are therefore far less stressful to your joints than a standard mouse. They also require much less room to navigate about.
Try: ZyonShop offers a wired model of their iPen computer mouse pen for about $50, and Bluetooth or RF wireless models for about $100. Salient Technologies offers five different models of their V-Mouse for prices ranging between $30 and $80.

Order a digital character recognition pen for between $120 and $200

Digital character recognition pens can scan text, numbers and sometimes images into any application. Many come with features like voice synthesis, barcode recognition and translation.
Try: I.R.I.S. is one of the leading providers of OCR and translation digital character recognition pens. You can pick up the Express personal IrisPen for about $130. The professional-grade IrisPen Executive is available for about $200. IrisPen Translators can be purchased for about $150. Wizcom electronic note-taking and text scanning pens are available for between $120 and $200. The Lite version doesn't recognize hand-written text.

Invest between $100 and $200 to take digital notes with scribe computer pens

You don't need a pen computer to take advantage of digital note-keeping. Digital scribe computer pens often work on any surface, and allow you to take notes for later input into your computer. Some pens are even capable of recording audio as well. These pens are great for busy executives, medical professionals and even students.
Try: The SureSource Iogear Mobile Digital Scribe is a note-taking pen that captures natural handwriting from any surface and stores it in the receiver. Their pen uses ordinary ink to write on any surface, and is great for notes, memos or drawings. You can purchase it for just under $100. The revolutionary Livescribe Pulse Smartpen records and links audio to everything you write. It uses special dot paper to track what you are writing, which you can either purchase from Livescribe or print out on your own printer. You can purchase a 1GB Smartpen for about $150. The 2GB version will run you almost $200.

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