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| | Features | The Boogie Board® RipTM LCD Writing provides a completely electronic medium for creating and preserving notes/drawingsEliminates the burden of unmanageable paper notebooks, legal pads, composition books and sketch padsSimplifies organization of notes - easily search and find saved files by date/name on your PCOptional Virtual Desktop Companion tool (available for download free from improvelectronics.com) expands tablet's functionality when connected to a PCReduces paper consumption and makes writing, drawing and learning fun!
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| | Description | The Boogie Board RipTM LCD Writing Tablet combines an exceptional, paper-like writing experience with the ability to record your written and drawn images and save them as files. Simply use the stylus (included) to write on the Boogie Board Rip tablet's writing surface. Then push the save button to store the image in the Boogie Board Rip tablet's internal memory, clear the screen with a friendly flash from the erase button and start fresh. Connect to a computer and transfer the stored files for editing, organizing, archiving and/or sharing! It's the perfect tool for taking notes, sketching images, creating graphs and diagrams, studying, teaching, and more. The possibilities are endless! | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.0 inches | | Product Width: | 0.5 inches | | Product Height: | 11.1 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.22 pounds | | Package Length: | 11.9 inches | | Package Width: | 7.9 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 18 reviews |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 18 customer reviews )
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36 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 Save feature disappointing Nov 17, 2011
By Yinny99
I wanted to sketch engineering diagrams, software UML, use cases, website designs, etc... Ordered this and was really excited about the advertised save feature.. Problem! It doesn't save as it looks on the Boogie board!!! What I draw on the boogie board looks OK, but when I save and then view the saved .PDF on the PC, pixels are missing! In other words, what the board saves is of lower quality than what you see on the actual boogie board.
And the quality loss on the saved file is substantial enough that it doesn't work for any of my engineering/sketch/design needs. Basically, it's an expensive toy for the kiddos!
I'm really disappointed and consider it false advertising (you are led to believe it saves what you see on the boogie board- as-is). So I'm out $150 (after device, sleeve, shipping) and I would have more than been happy to pay more for something that worked as advertised.
34 of 38 found the following review helpful:
A toy. Nothing more. Nov 15, 2011
By danger.dallan
Between being an engineering student and a graphic designer, I use an array of digital tools to speed up design processes. While the boogie board has proven great to bust out calculations without wasting paper, I question its current application to anything other than scratch work. It is fully capable of "saving" a pdf, but please note that its current firmware doesn't support varying line thickness. Translation: What appears on your screen isn't necessarily reflected in the pdf.
In some instances, I've found entire chunks of my notes missing because I failed to press down hard enough. This wouldn't be a problem if the tablet didn't display this information exactly the same as the information it recorded.
Finally, for those of you that plan on using this for creative designs away from the computer, think of a better solution. Besides not accurately recording what displays on the tablet, the exported vectors are created with more nodes than any program/tool I've ever used. A simple 1.5" straight line on the tablet will translate into a 154 node vector. The paths created are often constructed in such a way that it becomes more trouble than it is worth to simplify. As mentioned previously, there is now way to tell what your vector file truly looks like. This renders design impossible.
In short, I find the price ridiculous for its capabilities. Its price point puts it near far better options. I highly recommend spending a little extra and getting something far more capable unless you enjoy overpaying for a glorified whiteboard.
22 of 28 found the following review helpful:
 Writing and nothing but! Nov 19, 2011
By Heitea
I have been searching for a tablet ideal for writing for years! Tablets like the i-pad are designed for surfing the web, playing games and watching movies which is fine, but I have a computer which I use for those things.
When you write with the Boogie Board RIP there is no lag time! And you can see what you're writing on the surface you're writing on which makes it better than a Bamboo tablet (which I own). And it doesn't require special paper or use any paper. I've already made about a notebooks worth of notes!
The lines on the screen are thicker than the save lines, but that doesn't bother me. The only slight glitch is that if you're writing fast not every stroke is saved, but a good deal of them are. I can still figure out what my notes are about later. And over time I've gotten better at writing on it so more of my notes actually save. Also there's this indicator light that tells you if the tablet is registering your stroke. At first I thought this light would bug me, but I actually find it really helpful.
EDIT [Writing in cursive almost guarantees it will pick up your writing.]
Also at first I wondered what I would do with all the documents in PDF form, but I found a free vector PDF editor Inkscape and a free PDF merger PDF Split and Merge Basic. So now I can put all my notes into notebooks. I have them all uploaded onto my kindle and they look amazing.
The battery life is amazing. I've never even seen it get close to running out of juice. As for the memory I use it to take notes during for classes a day and doodle in between classes and at most I have 50 pages at the end of the day.
Also the fact that you can just use it as scratch paper and not save your notes is actually really helpful.
And I must say it is simply really fun to write on!
One thing I would recommend is buying through Brookstone's website since you can get a protection plan. I got mine through Improv Electronics so I don't have one. However it is actually rather sturdy feeling so maybe you don't need to bother.
The only real downside is that the manual is all pictures. I wish they'd just used words. I eventually figured out locking it would put it to sleep.
Anyway if you just want something to write this is the best thing on the market. Unlike other companies Improv actually has a history selling this product! Their customer service is really good!
EDIT
[After three months of use I still love this thing!
The battery power is even better than I imagined I go weeks without charging it! Also I can go weeks without running out of room!
Also one thing I forgot to mention previously is that when using this to take notes it can actually be a plus that it's so low tech. I have a very conservative professor who doesn't allow computers or recording devices to be used during her lectures, but she has no problem with this.
As for durability, I've dropped this countless times. It's very sturdy. Out of all my electronics it's the most unlikely to break.]
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 The save function is poor Dec 06, 2011
By frn.nogueira
I bought this LCD tablet to write my dayly notes and then save - my hope - them into my PC.
NO! after 60 minutos the input is lost. So, if you forget to save within a short time you lose your information.
If a meeting take more than one hour then you lose the information (it counts from the begining ..).
You could expect, that you do another word and you have 60m more. NO! lost!
So better to buy the previous LCD tablets for 10% of this price.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Feature Light but Infinitely Useful Feb 06, 2012
By Sam
Long story short, this product does everything it claims to do, though there is a slight learning curve to its use.
I have been using this product for the last three weeks as a complete replacement for taking notes and doing homework on paper for my college courses. I carry no notebooks to my 5 courses, only the Boogie Board Rip. As far as I can tell, this product is unique in that it allows you to take notes without the use of paper and without the immediate use of a computer. I was unable to find any other product that boasted this set of features.
Writing on the surface took some getting used to; at first penstrokes would be missed because I didn't press hard enough, but watching the indicator light while writing teaches you to press with the correct amount of pressure. The device must be "woken" up after the lock switch is turned off by pressing the "Save" button; forgetting to do this means you've lost whatever you've just written. The lines on the screen show up far thicker than the lines on the .pdf documents, meaning that writing that is fairly small and near illegible on the screen will look perfect on the computer. When writing, it's hard to keep your hand from pressing on the writing surface, causing a "cloudy" appearance. This affects legibility on the device, but these marks don't transfer to the .pdf.
One drawback is the size of the surface; it is much smaller than a standard notebook, and especially much narrower than a notebook, making solving some long math and chemistry problems difficult. I solved this problem (it's embarrassing how long it took me to think of this) by rotating the device 90 degrees, giving the surface a greater width.
There is no way to label the documents on the device, so I'm sure to put an underlined heading on the first page of every new entry, making them easy to separate later. I merge entries together on the computer using the open-source program "PDF Split and Merge." Another totally obvious solution that took me forever to discover: switching the "view" mode to "extra-large icons" makes it very easy to see where the entries begin and end without opening up every separate file to view.
Once merged, I upload the files to my Google Docs account, making them cloud-based and accessible from my home computer, my laptop, and the school computers with equal ease, without the use of a corruptible and easily lost flash drive, and without a stack of notebooks that I'll never look at again come May.
The battery life has been excellent so far; I have used the device heavily for four days without the indicator light turning red, and the charge time is very fast.
The neoprene sleeve I purchased for the device from the manufacturer has protected it from the contents of my bag so far. I do get nervous about this, as the device is so thin and light.
As other reviewers have pointed out, you can't recall past images to the screen on the device; I've found this to be only a minor inconvenience so far.
Overall, I am satisfied with the Rip and will continue to use it, and I feel that it has entirely lived up to the promises made by the manufacturer, hence the five star rating. Still, I have read that the e-writer market is growing and that other similar products may soon be available. I wouldn't be opposed to replacing the Rip if something which addressed the issues I've mentioned was released.
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