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A take off from the normal sketchbook, the device reminds one of a personal diary. It is a combination of paper and electronics, and gives the person carrying it a feel of the everyday notebook with its worn-out fabric cover. This diary is a take off from my existing diary, which has a very nice material feel to it, and would still urge me to sketch and doodle in crowded trains. The thread, which runs around my diary, comes from the unbound coconut leaf manuals of the pre-paper era, and now reinvents itself as the cable.
The left side of the diary has a regular paper notepad for jottings and writings. While the laptop will get increasingly popular nothing can ever replace the pleasurable feeling of writing with hand on the tactile paper surface. On the right side, there is the LCD screen, on which notes and sketches can be made directly. As and when the user feels like, this information – literally – “a piece of time” can be sent to the other person. The process of writing, or perhaps overwriting it with sketches, doodles or video would reappear in the same time on the receiver’s screen.
The Spine holds the main hardware of the device. It has the chip and one end of it has the removable digital camera and microphone. The inner side of the spine has the interface with the icons and all functions.