Livescribe New Mobile Computing Platform: with Smartpen

It’s going to sell like hotcakes to lawyers, journalists, students and anyone who takes a lot of notes. The product is called LiveScribe which will link audio recordings you make as you jot written notes to the actual text you’re writing.

You can index the recordings on your computer and later play them back, this is an amazing tool and one I did not have at school (imagine if at school years ago I could of just clicked on the paper and the whole audio segment played itself back).

This is really the best way to take notes and later organize them, the smartpen will store about an hour of audio (not sure what RAM is in there).

This is very similar to IBM Transnote, but that product was made of a much older technology and lacked the most important part LIVESCRIBE.

This really is a new chapter in mobile computing, with the Livescribe platform you can turn plain paper into a computer screen and this will help millions of people bridge the gap between the digital worlds and paper.

Livescribe Features Include:

• Development Tools: easy-to-use tools for consumers and developers to create, publish, and share or sell new applications and content online
• Software Applications: a breadth of solutions that leverage audio/ink capture, handwriting recognition, and Internet connectivity to enhance personal productivity, learning, communication and self expression
• Dot Paper with Dot Positioning System (DPS): technology that enables interactive, live documents using plain paper printed with micro-dots
• Smartpen: a Montblanc-size computer with advanced processing power, audio/visual feedback, and substantial memory for handwriting capture, audio recording, and applications

Via gizmodo

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