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QuickLink Pen

Whenever I travel I inevitably return home with numerous scraps of paper, business cards, brochures, articles ripped out of magazines and newspapers and the proverbial notes on cocktail napkins. If I was extremely organized, I would transfer all of the information to my laptop on a regular basis. I am not that organized, nowhere near it. So, the scraps pile up - in my wallet, my backpack, my suitcase, my pockets, my son's pockets, everywhere.

Enter the QuickLink Pen - a little item that I recently purchased and took on its inaugural trip. This little treasure is an electronic highlighter that scans printed material, from newspapers, brochures, magazines and, if you write really neatly, from those cocktail napkins. It then transfers the information to your computer, PDA or cell phone (if you are someone who has a cell phone at all, much less one that knows what to do with digitally transferred information).

The QuickLink Pen is very light, a little larger than the average flat marker, and stores up to a thousand pages. For those of you who travel the world, it knows eight languages. Downside - it's only PC compatible.