So it’s Friday night, you have tickets to the big game on Saturday, and a ten-page paper due Monday that you haven’t even started. The paper’s not so bad (okay, maybe it is), but it’s the five references and fifteen quotations that you are required to have that are painful. It’s not like the teacher isn't hard enough to please, but your references have to be perfect MLA format which means you need to know who the author’s granddaughter is. Do you really have time or desire to write all of that info down, just to have to type it again? Well, if you have access to a computer and $150, you don’t have to!

Whizcom Technologies makes the QuickLink Pen. The QuickLink is a handheld, battery-powered scanner. It’s not that large; in fact, it’s smaller then a Magnum 44 permanent marker but packs just as much punch as your own personal secretary. The QuickLink pen is one of a new generation of handheld pen-like text scanners. Though it costs as much as a normal photo/text scanner from Wal-Mart, the QuickLink pen goes anywhere with you. Imagine not having to wait for a photocopier to copy pages of material for a few lines of text!

The QuickLink pen comes with 4 mb of memory. Half of which is loaded with the pen software you’ll need, leaving 2 mb of memory open for whatever you want to scan in. So how much is that really? Well, the local computer nerd will tell you that it's 2 million characters. To put that number in perspective, you could easily hold the entire New Testament there. If that’s not enough for you, the pen can have more memory added.

You can order the Wizcom Technologies QuickLink pen from your favorite online stores such as 800.com, Warehouse.com and even Amazon.com.