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Audio Livescribe Pen

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The Smartpen

The Livescribe Pulse Digital Smartpen records your notes two ways: it creates digital copies of everything you write by hand while recording audio at the same time. It also goes one step further and links the two together, so you can quickly access audio by tapping parts of your notes. All of this is uploaded to your computer where the Livescribe software archives and makes your notes fully searchable. In addition, it offers features like a calculator, translator, and a paper piano that plays a mini piano you draw on paper.

The pen's a great choice for students, journalists, and meeting-hoppers since you can link your notes to the audio recording to refresh your memory. And it's also a calculator.


 

Audio Pen

Smartpen

The Livescribe Pulse is fantastic. it performs as advertised and is relatively easy to use. It doesn't offer anything enticing or groundbreaking for people who don't use a pen and paper on a regular basis. It's a product for the likes of students, journalists, or even doctors, who are constantly scribbling things down with a pen.
  1. As a quick refresh, the Livescribe Pulse uses special dotted paper for spatial recognition to digitally replicate the notes. In one regard, this is good, because it doesn't require any secondary hardware. On the other hand, you cant just use any old piece of paper to make this thing fully functional. each sheet of paper has controls on the bottom, allowing navigation of the pens menu system, recording controls, bookmarking, playback controls, and speaker volume.

Livescribe Pens

The note-taking/digital recording/replay function works smoothly. You hit the record button on the paper before you begin to write, then as you jot down your handcrafted masterpiece, it simultaneously records the audio and keeps the two linked. When you stop recording, you can tap anywhere in the vicinity of your notes and it will playback the audio from that moment when you were writing. It's awesome
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Livescribe 4 GB Echo Smartpen

In the universe of Livescribe pens this is probably the one which should command your most serious consideration. 4GB is an an enormous amount of data and recording. I have never come close to filling 2GBs although I do remove recording from the pen from time to time while maintaining the audio on my Livescribe Desktop.

What You Get in the Box

* The Echo smartpen with 4GB of memory
* Livescribe Connect Premium: Includes Connect Basic (Facebook, Evernote, MyLivescribe, your mobile device, and your computer)
plus additional connectors for Email and Google Docs
* Livescribe Desktop software for Mac or Windows (download)
* 500 MB of personal online storage
* Starter dot paper notebook
* Micro USB Cable
* Interactive Getting Started Guide
* Smartpen Tips and Tricks
* 2 smartpen caps
* 2 ink cartridges
Livescribe 4 GB Echo Smartpen

Livescribe 4 GB Echo Smartpen

Amazon Price: $115.00 (as of 02/15/2012)Buy Now

Livescribe has perfected a product that, as a tool for lawyers, for students, for physicians, and salesmen.

Pens with Audio and Text links

These can also be uploaded into Livescribe's Desktop software, which archives your notes according to the notebook they were written in and the page it was on. Text with audio linked to it appears in green, and when clicked, plays back the audio.
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Oprah's favorite gadget

The Livescibe Pulse Smartpen

Omar is a student now, and this new gadget offers up a creative solution to a common problem. "I'm always struggling, do I take notes on my computer or on paper?" The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen is his solution. It looks like a pen, but it has a camera in the front to record what you're writing. "It's also got a very powerful microphone," Omar says. "So as you are writing, it records all of the audio being said all around." Once you're done, just put the pen in its cradle and it easily transfers the information to your computer. "If you're a student or you're in a meeting or you're interviewing somebody, it allows you to never miss a word." The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen costs $200.

Livescribe Pen Demo

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