The Pen & Paper That Will Make You Wonder How Were Ever Productive Before
August 1, 2014
Smart pens are now a thing of the PRESENT, no longer stuck in the future! A power-packed computer can rest at your fingertips to offer you some great productivity advantages!
A company called Livescribe, now featuring their third generation products, now have some super-cool devices, including the Pulse, Sky, Echo, and Livescribe 3 pens.
Its first writing tool, Pulse, is now getting phased out, taking a back seat to the newer Echo and Sky pens, along with the recently released Livescribe 3. The company’s pens have the purpose to capture everything you write – as well as everything you hear – and put it in one place. The pen uses a “dot paper” that works with an infrared camera inside the pen to capture all of your strokes. Additionally, the pen has a microphone to record everything you hear.
WHOA.
But what may be the best or most popular feature in the pens, is that they are connected. You can simply tap on your notes and the pen will automatically find the point in the recording in which you wrote them, making things a breeze if you are trying to recall small sections of a meeting, or even a lecture in class.
That’s not all it does, however. The pen is equipped to support apps capable of assisting with translations. You can write a word in English, then translate it to Spanish – hearing it pronounced verbally though the speaker on the pen.
DOUBLE WHOA.
Now, at the risk of sounding like an infomercial… But wait! There are even more things it can do!
The possibilities are endless.
You can actually translate your handwritten notes and convert them into digital text!
WHOA. WHOA. WHOA.
A company called MyScript has worked with Livescribe to make all this possible.
With the newer Sky Pen, you can actually do everything wirelessly, whereas before you were required to plug into a computer. How does that work? Evernote and Livescribe have joined up. That is a huge deal; Evernote was already known for its great sharing abilities and tracking system. With the addition of this pen, coupled with your special Livescribe notebooks, you can now get wirelessly shared, updated and used by friends, family, peers, classmates, etc., etc., etc. The possibilities are endless.
I personally love mine, and we have already hooked up several customers with their very own. They tell us they’ll never go back. I know I won’t.
This is an awesome development. We can now move into the future using the previous modus operandus. The days of the handwritten epistle are upon us. It will be a nice innovation to use a tablet to take notes, and then to transfer them to digital format.