Livescribe Pulse smartpen hits 4GB, launching app store (video)

Not much has changed in the year since we last checked in with the Livescribe Pulse, the smartpen that captures and syncs your handwriting and audio back to your PC or Mac using a built-in infrared camera and mic. Today we get a new titanium color on the outside and bump from 2GB ($170) to 4GB ($200) within. There's also a tease of an Application Store launch later this year. Oh boy, that's exactly what's been holding back the smartpen industry from replacing all those pesky laptops in collegiate lecture halls.

[Reaper man Posted Oct 19th 2009 9:50AM]

FUCK YEAH LEFTIES!

[CL Posted Oct 19th 2009 9:58AM]

sarcasm detectors are all broken today!

[Sonic Death Monkey Posted Oct 19th 2009 10:04AM]

A co worker of mine uses one. He loves it and although I haven't used one it does have a logic appeal. The paper has a very subtle pattern printed on it that allows the pen to orient itself when capturing the ink on the page. He can go back to a note later and hear what was being said in the meeting when he wrote that note. That is cool.

[DrDr Posted Oct 19th 2009 12:16PM]

Thank you CL. I was wondering how long it would take.

[omahane Posted Oct 19th 2009 2:27PM]

I use this EVERY day and love it. Couldn't have studied as easily for midterms without it. I recommend it to EVERYONE who asks me about it. BTW, i'm not a plant. I just love this pen.

[itsmiguel Posted Oct 19th 2009 2:53PM]

My family owns a school in Brazil (Ateneu) and use this Smartpen.
My Father-in-law teaches Chemistry there and writes all of his notes on it as he teaches, then posts the file on his website so that his students can review the class as he taught it, clicking on any note on the page brings you to that specific part of the lesson.

I think it works great and the students love it.
1. It's great for students to catch up if they missed a class.
2. The notebooks are basically the same price as a regular notebook, so that's not a problem.
3. It's cheap.

Check out this sample note to get an idea of what you can export to the web. Make sure to click Full Screen and remember that you can click on any part of the not to skip to that part.

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=8VHWtC7TnPHR

[grindboy Posted Oct 19th 2009 4:26PM]

Did anyone else find the Bass in that background music horrendous?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 21st 2009 10:27AM]

I'm in the military and attended a language school for Persian Farsi...this pen came in so handy to transfer my handwritten notes...which aren't english, to my friends, as well as have an audio recording of each class (7 hours a day)...if I ever forgot how to pronounce a word or what the heck the symbols I was looking at was there for, I just tapped it and heard the audio from the exact point I wrote that part....pretty damn useful. the app for language is really cool as well...can't wait for the languages to be expanded to include full dictionaries!

[huh Posted Nov 6th 2009 8:25AM]

It would be a tremendous device if it had wireless support for transferring data, and using it as a stylus on the computer..

[oufa Posted Dec 8th 2009 6:04AM]

From where can i get this pen

[aliye Posted Jan 4th 2010 6:49PM]

The most impractical part of it was that it only worked on special paper. You can't just use it on any ol' piece of paper to doodle.
http://www.avrupaestetik.com/burun_estetigi.html