But the whole concept comes alive when you connect it to the Web and sync your notes with the cloud.And that's the killer new feature of the LiveScribe Sky wifi smartpen: the Pulse and Echo needed to be physically connected to a PC in order to sync content, but the brand new Sky, announced today, has inbuilt Wi-Fi connectivity that fires your notes and audio into the cloud and back out to all your desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones using the very popular and platform-agnostic Evernote app. You can use the LiveScribe pens exclusively with the notebooks provided (which are no more expensive than a regular notepad) and it's an exceptionally useful gadget. In fact just about everything you do with the pen is controlled by tapping it on these pictures of buttons. The LiveScribe Sky wifi has only a single button on it, and yet it's able to perform a whole bunch of different functions by tapping printed buttons drawn onto special pages in the included notebook. The pen digitizes everything you write, so you can sync all your notes to your tablet, phone or PC – and it also records audio the entire time, time-coded to every stroke of your pen so that if you tap on anything you've written, it'll start playing the audio of whoever was speaking at the moment you took that note.Ĭlose-up view of the Anoto smart paper – the patterns formed by these tiny dots identify each page as unique, and also plot out the entire area of each page for writing on Here's the concept if, like me, you've never seen one before: you go into a meeting or a lecture, turn on your electronic pen, hit record and start taking notes as per usual in a specially coded notebook. The smartest pen I'd used prior to the LiveScribe Sky wifi was one of those ten-color jobbies where each ink has a different perfume in it, so it's safe to say I'm a complete newbie to the concept of smartpens. You'll have to forgive me if I sound overexcited here. We spent ten days with a LiveScribe Sky 4 GB.
It's a fascinating device that revolutionizes the taking, usage and sharing of handwritten notes. The latest LiveScribe pen, the Sky wifi smartpen, has built-in wireless connectivity that quickly syncs your notes, audio and all, with the ubiquitous Evernote application so you can read and play them back on your PC, tablet or smartphone. But here's the cool part: they can also record the sound you were hearing when you wrote those notes, timecoded to each penstroke, so, for example, you can tap on a lecture note and hear exactly what the professor was saying when you were writing it. LiveScribe's smartpens have the ability to instantly digitize anything you write in a notebook and send it to a tablet or PC as a handwritten note. This is one of the coolest toys I've played with in years.
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