Livescribe Pulse 2GB Smartpen - Your Must-have Secret Weapon at School...

The Livescribe Smart Pen is now my great assistant for studying. I bought it three weeks ago and I love to bring it with me to attend every lesson. My friends said it was too expensive to spend $200 on the Pen but I think it is totally worthy of the price.

The Pen is extremely easy-to-use. It is just a real pen but with a built-in computer. I can record everything being said in class. Both sound and hand-writing can be recorded. It is similar to MP3 players or other recorders.

But the best thing is that I can use the pen to tap whatever word on the notes and then I can listen to what is taught about the particular word or topic. It saves lots of my time because I need not play the recording back and forth to find out the main points. Another feature is that the Pen allows me to slow down the speed of the recordings. It helps me clearly hear every word spoken by the tutor so that I will not miss anything.

I think the Pen is the best tool for lazy students. Even though I fall asleep in class, I can still get something from the notes and recording.

One of my friends is a very lazy student. He rarely misses lessons and even though he is physically present, he mentally is not. He asked me for help three days ago because we had a test yesterday. He wants my notes. But I can lend my notes to him because I had to study too. At that time the Pen was very useful. I uploaded my notes to my computer by the included Livescribe Desktop and emailed the files to my friend. Although the notes were only related to one lesson, he told me it helped him a lot because the lesson was, luckily, the course review.

Sometimes I get bored with the notes. In the past I will turn on my XBox and play for an hour before going back to studying. But now I play the piano. The piano is on my notes and drawn by the Pen. It can really produce sounds. Normally I will focus on studying again after a few minutes.

One thing that makes Livescribe Pen imperfect is the requirement of using the special paper. But it is just a small disadvantage because the price of the special paper is really acceptable. It is only a bit more expensive than the normal paper but it brings me more that the normal ones cannot. It is worth buying the Pen and I really recommend every student to have one. It not only helps me get better academic result but I also build a closer relationship with my friends. All of us think studying is actually not that boring and hard.