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With all things turning digital, even good old pen and paper will soon be passé.
Recently, the US-based company LiveScribe launched the The Pulse smartpen (www.livescribe.com) which has become top of the line for “paper-based computing” – basically, hi-tech note taking. The Pulse can create digital copies of notes and link them to recorded audio. Using special paper with microdots to track pen movement, it can copy notes, do calculations, translate foreign words and record 3D audio.
This isn’t the first of its kind. Logitech also has an Io pen (www.logitech.com, US$150), which instantly sends whatever is written or drawn into a computer, where it can be archived and opened in your favorite applications. There’s also Leapfrog’s Fly Fusion Pentop Commuter (www.flyworld.com, US$80), targeted primarily at students, offering homework and note taking solutions. It can calculate, has a 1000 word Spanish dictionary (meaning you write a word in English and hear its translation instantly), upload handwritten notes and drafts, digitize them immediately into Microsoft Word or emails, so you can back up your notes and spell-check handwritten work.
But The Pulse is a computer-embedded pen that captures handwriting and simultaneously recording audio, syncing it to the writing. Great if you're taking notes in class, a reporter, or learning a new language – tap a written phrase so you can hear back how your teacher pronounced the words.To replay what was recorded while writing a word, you can just tap back on the word.
The Pulse smartpen has an ARM 9 processor, high-speed infrared camera with a Dot Positioning System (DPS) that works with the Dot paper notebook (which is priced just as much as a regular notebook, and users can print out their own for free) – this means microdots printed on paper tells the pen where the user is writing or taping. Recording from afar, like at a conference or outdoors? The pen has a 3D recroding headset. Each earbud has a microphone so you what you’re recording is exactly what you’re hearing.
If you register with Livescribe, you’ll get 250 MB of online storage so you can share notes and audio as Flash movies or PDF files with others. There’s text and audio transcription services online, and more applications are being developed for the Pulse, like converting handwriting and audio into digital text, games, books and special education tools for the visually impaired. It comes in a 1GB model with 100 hours of audio storage and 16000 pages of digital notes (US$150) and 2GB model at US$200. The Mac version will hit stores in September.
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