Alongside its common slate of laptops and different gear, Lenovo has introduced an E-Ink notepad at CES. Smart Paper is a ten.3-inch show with an anti-glare display. The firm says it’s a light-weight system with 50GB of storage, sufficient for 50,000 pages of doodles and scrawls.

Smart Paper comes with a battery-less stylus that may be saved within the case. The Smart Paper Pen is designed to attenuate lag, with latency as little as 23 milliseconds. There are 9 totally different pen settings (similar to pencil, ballpoint and marker), greater than 4,000 stress sensitivity ranges and tilt detection. Smart Paper has dozens of notepad templates as nicely, together with a clean slate, lined paper and music manuscript.

There’s the choice to document voice notes, due to the twin microphones. Handily, you’ll be able to take notes whereas recording a gathering or lecture. They’ll be synced, so you’ll be able to choose some textual content and listen to that portion of the recording.

Don’t fear an excessive amount of about shedding a observe. Smart Paper can convert your handwriting into textual content and you need to use key phrase searches to search out what you’re searching for. You can delete and reorganize notes, and place them into folders. You’ll have the ability to entry thousands and thousands of ebooks and search saved books and articles which are in your Smart Paper. If you permit the notepad at house, you’ll nonetheless have the ability to entry all of your stuff, due to the Smart Paper cell and Windows PC app, which helps cloud sync. The app can translate textual content and audio recordings onto different languages as nicely.

Smart Paper looks as if Lenovo’s reply to Amazon’s Kindle Scribe, which debuted final 12 months. How they examine towards one another in follow stays to be seen, however at $400, Smart Paper shall be $60 costlier. It ought to ship later this 12 months.