(The pen actually recognizes what you’re drawing-a At the moment, there are only about 75 apps available-hangman, Mastermind, Sudoku and a tip calculator among them. With the Echo smartpen, it is a lot more difficult to fool around. Once you mute the volume and start typing, most teachers assume that you’re vigorously taking notes. A laptop makes it incredibly easy to mask that you’re playing a game during a lecture or perusing Facebook. One virtue of the smartpen is that it doesn’t serve as a distraction. You see your handwriting appear on the computer screen in front of you as the audio plays back. Viewing a pencast is a unique experience indeed. The app is free, so anyone with a computer can watch. You can share these pencasts with other people using the Livescribe Web site and desktop software. Then, the pen plays back whatever audio it recorded at that point in your writing. When you’re listening to a pencast, you can select a word by tapping The finished product is affectionately called a pencast. The Paper Replay function lets you record a lecture while taking notes at the same time. (You can buy various pads of preprinted paper or youĬan print your own speckled paper at home.) Once you’re done, you’ll have the option to upload your notes to the computer. To take notes, you write with real ink on the special paper, which is covered with barely visible dots they tell the pen’s camera where you are on the page. The updated penĪlso replaces the metal surface of the Pulse with a soft rubber grip. It is obviously a bit heftier than your average 99-cent ballpoint pen, but it is not too unwieldy. The Echo pen is not a radical departure from the Pulse, its predecessor. The proper time appears on the skinny OLED screen on the side of the pen. Tapped on the individual numbers 0-8-2-8 and then continued to tap on PM. For example, to set the time to 8:28 p.m., I just Then you adjust the date and time by selecting buttons on a setup card with your pen tip. You indicate whether you’re right- or left-handed. The device includes two ink cartridges, two pen caps, a micro USB cable, and a 50-sheet starter notebook. Like its predecessor, the Pulse smartpen, the Echo smartpen ($170 for 4 gigabytes of storage and $200 for 8 gigabytes) is a truly exciting product and it is designed almost exclusively for the student. And then there is the laptop, the tool of every college student (useful, There is the iPad (typing on glass can be tough-and while you can buy a special stylus, they’re too imprecise for handwriting). There have been a few attempts: the tablet computer (bulky, easily misplaced special pen, poor battery life). As a student, I’ve been looking for some new technology that will change the note-taking process.
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