Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smartpen
- Captures over 200 hours of recorded audio or 32,000 pages of notes. (Actual available recording time varies by audio quality setting)
- Instantly play back your recorded audio by tapping on your notes to listen to the information you captured
- Share your recordings and notes with anyone privately or publicly with 500MB of free online storage for your recorded audio or notes
- USB connector to transfer notes and audio to your Mac or PC
- Audio jack and 3-D Recording Headset for far-field recording
Product Description
Capture Everything The Pulse smartpen records audio and links it what you write. Missed something? Tap on your notes or drawings with the tip of your Pulse smartpen to hear what was said while you were writing. No Need to Lug the Laptop The Pulse smartpen automatically captures everything as you write and draw. Transfer your notes to your computer, organize them, and even search for words within your notes. Find what you want in seconds. Share Your Notes Transform your notes and audio into interactive movies. Upload your creations online for everyone to see, hear and play. What You Get • The Pulse smartpen (1.3 ounces, anodized aluminum housing) • 2 GB of memory (actual user available memory will be less) • Livescribe Desktop software (download) • 3-D Recording Headset • 50 sheet dot paper lined notebook • USB mobile charging cradle • Smartpen case • 2 black fine point ink cartridges • Interactive Getting Started Guide… More >>
Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smartpen
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5 comments
Garrett R. Seiger on December 17, 2009 at 3:21 pm
The pen looks like a pen, feels like a pen, writes like a pen, costs….100 times more than a pen. The perk is that it records what you write…except it doesn’t record what you write legibly, thus rendering this feature completely useless.
W. Gaertner on December 17, 2009 at 5:53 pm
The point of this device is to copy your notes as you write them.
-However, only about 40% of the words you write will be read by the pen; everything else looks like hieroglyphs, when transferred to your PC.
This is not a handwriting complaint, the pen simply doesn’t pick everything up with it’s camera.
Another complaint.
-The software allows you to look up words written using the pen, a very cool feature if more than half your writing wasn’t being misread.
However the fact that it can look up your words means it already comes with image-to-text software. Therefore, you are being forced to separately pay for something the device can already do, despicable.
Buying this over-priced pen will not help you.
Andrea Kibler on December 17, 2009 at 8:17 pm
I’ve had the 2GB pulse smartpen since the summer and it’s been an amazing tool. Why didn’t they have this when I was in undergrad??? It’s a great versatile device that is helpful as what it is (an actual pen), but with the added features of being able to record audio at the same time, and to have all this stored in traditional form (physical notebook) and digitally, you can’t beat it. The company who makes it (Livescribe) also just opened a beta app store where you can get travel phrases in Spanish or Japanese for example. Having been in Tokyo this summer and was unable to communicate with a lot of natives, it would have come in incredibly useful as a language tool.
Some negatives about the functionality of it are more fiction than fact. For example, “what about when it runs out of ink?” There are refill ink cartridges that are inexpensive and easy to change. And “I don’t want to have to buy expensive paper.” Notebooks for the pen are the same price relatively as buying a normal one from a college bookstore or a Borders. And dot paper can also be printed free from the Livescribe website. And “I’m not going to spend $100 and something dollars for a PEN.” It’s more of a digital audio recorder or a computer than a pen but unless you see it in person and try it out, you might have that perception.
I really like being able to save everything digitally and have the comfort that my recordings will be accessible whenever I want. Being able to share the “pencast” sessions with friends on Facebook has also been really helpful to classmates who missed an important class or study session.
Again, I really like that the company that makes this is so forward-thinking to have applications and be constantly coming up with new ways to make this relevant to college students, as well as professionals and the everyday person.
But seriously, as a communications undergraduate major who loved my digital audio recorder to no end as an editor on the campus newspaper, why didn’t this exist when I was in college???
N. L. Blankenbeckler on December 17, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I think it’s a great value and helps save time and energy (not lugging a laptop around to meetings). I have the 1GB model and use it daily. My only issue is my horrible handwriting so I have to review information carefully once I convert it text.
Mac007 on December 17, 2009 at 10:38 pm
I have had the pen for about 11 months. Generally, it worked very well. I had no problem of recording and playing notes by the pen itself. The only problems were about using the desktop software (Mac version). It was not well-desgined. If you update your Mac OS and Livesscribe software, you may not be able to transfer notes from the pen to the computer. I recently called for technical assistance and sent all the information they wanted through email, I never received any responses from them. In summary, you should be prepared to encounter technical problems and not get technical helps from the company. This is at least true for Mac users.