Click to viewLivescribe's Beating Smartpen, which creates agenda copies of addendum and links them to recorded audio, launches today in 1GB and 2 GB models. Application specialized cardboard with microdots to clue pen movement, the Beating not alone copies notes, but can do quick calculations, construe adopted words and almanac 3D audio.
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We got an up abutting attending at the Livescribe Pulse, and activate out for ourselves what it could do. Livescribe's CEO, Jim Marggraff, is the aforementioned man amenable for Leapfrog's Fly Fusion Pen. He larboard to activate Livescribe and plan on added avant-garde smartpens. The Beating is about 6 inches long, about a bisected inch in diameter, has a 96x18 OLED display, up to 2GB of anamnesis (good for 150-200 hours recording time or 60,000 pages of notes), bifold anchored mics, and a data/charging berth with a agnate architecture to a magsafe charger.
The capital affection of the Beating is that it digitally transfers handwritten addendum and links it to audio recorded at the aforementioned time. For example, if you were to activate recording audio while writing, you could go aback later, tap anywhere on the page and accompany up the audio that was recorded while autograph in that specific allotment of the page.
The accounting addendum are transferred to the computer via USB berth and are alien into Livescribe's own software interface. From actuality addendum can be organized and manipulated as you see fit. One affection is the adeptness to breathing pen strokes, so that they sequentially arise on awning like you wrote them on paper. It aswell comes with autography acceptance software so that you can seek for keywords in your notes. The aboriginal software we saw had a few bugs, but it should be ironed out afore the beating hits shelves. All of these addendum can aswell be uploaded to your own alone page on Livescribe's server (250 MB free) area you can allotment with others, or just accumulate it as advancement for yourself.
One of the neater functions of the Beating is the 3D recording angle that comes with the pen. The angle looks and functions like a accustomed brace of headphones, but on the behind are a brace of binaural mics that accredit 3D audio recording. If you accept the angle in your ears, or draped over your accept while recording, and you go aback and accept later, the audio sounds absolutely the way you accomplished it earlier. If anyone is walking about you while talking, you can apprehend the complete alteration from one ear to the other.
The specialized dot cardboard is the key to the Pulse's functionality. While Livescribe will aftermath notebooks catered about specific functions of the smartpen, templates can aswell be downloaded and printed from home for free. At the basal of the cardboard are a alternation on controls (Record, Play, Stop, etc...) that run the capital functions of the pen. Borer on a area of your addendum will accompany up the agnate audio that was recorded as you were autograph on that atom of the page. Menu aeronautics is agitated out through a cursor, which is aswell on the page, or can be fatigued anywhere on the page. From here, some of the added avant-garde functions of the pen can be accessed.
The calculator and translator appearance off some of the added able abilities of the Livescribe Pulse. If you accompany up the calculator app, and address "10x4=" on the paper, the Beating will discharge out the actual acknowledgment of 40. Likewise, with the translator, if you aces to construe from Spanish to English and address down the chat "coche", the Beating will assay the argument and appearance the chat translated as "car." These functions are just the tip of the iceberg; Livescribe not alone affairs to accomplish added abundance apps like this, but accessible up the belvedere with an SDK accessible to all in the added bisected of 2008.
The Livescribe Beating Smartpen is accepted to address in March (PC only, Mac abutment to chase soon) with the 1 GB archetypal affairs for $149 and the 2 GB archetypal for $199. Both pens appear with a 100-page dot notebook, 3D recording headset, ink and stylus refills, USB cradle, Livescribe Desktop app, and 250 MB of online storage.
Livescribe Unveils Pulse™ Smartpen and Developer Program
Livescribe invites developers to actualize applications for Pulse
DEMO - Palm Desert, Calif. - Jan. 28, 2008 - Livescribe, Inc. Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jim Marggraff will bare a new class of customer electronics on Tuesday with the addition of
Pulse™, the world's aboriginal smartpen.
The Beating smartpen from Livescribe is a computer aural a pen that captures autography and
simultaneously annal audio and synchronizes it to the writing. Users can artlessly tap on their addendum to
replay what was recorded from the exact moment they were writing, so they never absence a chat they hear,
write, or speak. Further, the smartpen is a accepted purpose computer with affluent I/O capabilities and a Java
development ambiance that enables a advanced ambit of applications.
"Pulse is a new blazon of adaptable computer that supports the four basal modes of animal advice -
reading, writing, speaking and listening" said Jim Marggraff. "Using an anchored apostle and display
for audio/visual input, and microphones and a pen for audio/visual output, Beating advances the ability and
flexibility of adaptable accretion - it's the missing hotlink that now connects the cardboard and agenda worlds."
Introducing the Pulse™ Smartpen from Livescribe
The Beating smartpen is accessible for preorder at www.livescribe.com and will admission on doorsteps in
March. Key appearance with every Beating smartpen acquirement include:
• Beating Smartpen - With a sleek, ergonomic architecture and charcoal dejected anodized aluminum
housing, the smartpen weighs in at just 1.3 ounces. Beating is accessible in two models. Priced at
$149, the 1GB archetypal provides accumulator for recorded audio (over 100 hours), agenda addendum (over
16,000 pages), or add-on applications. At $199, the 2GB archetypal doubles the accumulator accommodation and
provides added adaptability for downloading approaching applications.
• Cardboard Replay™ - Pulse's amount appliance enables users to almanac and accompany audio with whatever
they write, so they never absence a word. With Cardboard Replay, users can tap on their addendum accounting on
paper to apprehend absolutely what was said. They can aswell fast forward, rewind, jump ahead, pause, and
even acceleration up or apathetic down their audio recordings application controls printed on the basal of each
page.
• Smartpen Technology - The Beating smartpen is a adult adaptable computer that includes: a
high acceleration bittersweet camera with a Dot Positioning System (DPS); rechargeable lithium battery;
high adverse affectation for simple indoor/outdoor viewing; bifold microphones for bright recording and
noise cancellation; an anchored apostle and an audio jack for Livescribe's 3D Recording
Headset.
• Dot Cardboard Anthology - The nearly-invisible micro dots printed on anthology pages acquaint the Pulse
smartpen absolutely area a user is autograph or tapping. The Dot Positioning System enables not only
printed controls for recording and playback on anniversary page, but aswell paper-based applications
including a full-function calculator on the central foreground awning of every notebook. Additional
notebooks will be accessible for acquirement at prices commensurable to accustomed cardboard notebooks. Users
can aswell book dot cardboard for chargeless on able laser jet printers alpha in April.
• 3D Recording Angle - Livescribe has created a advocate 3D Recording Headset. Each
earbud has an anchored microphone that creates a new accepted in recording superior in large
rooms or blatant environments.
• USB Adaptable Charging Cradle - This ablaze weight alluring cradle connects the Beating smartpen
to the PC to recharge, alteration agenda ink and audio, and install new applications.
• Livescribe Desktop Software - The agenda hub for addendum and audio, Livescribe Desktop allows
users to store, replay, and seek for words aural their handwritten addendum on their PC.
• Livescribe Online Association - Every registered Beating user receives 250MB of online storage
to upload and allotment addendum and audio as alternate Flash movies or PDF files. Users can accept to
share with the Livescribe community, called contacts, or added sites like Facebook. Argument and
audio archetype casework will aswell be accessible online.
• Added Applications - Users can adapt their Beating with added applications -
ranging from accent acquirements to abundance accoutrement to amateur - via download from
www.livescribe.com.
Developer Affairs Makes Beating Smartpen Even Smarter
Livescribe aswell appear the barrage of the Livescribe Developer Program, agreeable developers to build
innovative, paper-based accretion applications to enhance and augment the functionality of the Pulse
smartpen. The affairs provides a apartment of accoutrement and casework for users, accidental developers and professional
developers to create, publish, allotment and advertise their applications. Members will accept admission to developer
tools, abstruse documentation, amateur guides, sample code, association forums and abstruse support.
Some of the applications already underway by developers for Beating cover adopted accent translators,
productivity tools, games, alternate books, archetype services, and specialized educational aids:
Languages
• Binary Labs is developing a complete Spanish translator for Pulse, accouterment a able apparatus for
people that wish to apprentice or acquaint in Spanish. Consumers artlessly address words in English
to apprehend and apprehend the Spanish adaptation on Pulse's OLED affectation screen. Users can aswell attending up
Spanish verb conjugations and Spanish idioms.
Productivity
-Living Cardboard will advance the Elephant Calendar, best accepted for its paper-based personal
organizer, into an alternate agenda organizer that works with Pulse.
Entertainment
• Stiletto Ventures will action several amateur and ball applications advised to provide
Livescribe barter with an engaging, alternate cardboard experience.
Interactive books
• J-PEA will accomplish the Bible, the a lot of broadly broadcast book in the world, alternate by printing
it on dot paper. Readers tap on pages with their smartpen to apprehend verses apprehend to them, hear
pronunciations, apprehend definitions of specific words, or jump to cross-referenced verses.
• Audio Tutor will actualize the aboriginal alternate birding journal. The dot-enabled acreage journal
provides bird visuals and information, in both argument and audio. Consumers can aswell almanac their
birding expeditions through handwriting, assets and audio recordings.
Transcription
Livescribe provides several options to advice consumers calmly transcribe autography and audio
into agenda text:
• Living Cardboard will accommodate ink to argument archetype services.
• Vision Objects will accommodate autography acceptance software that converts autography captured
by Beating into agenda text.
• Winscribe will action chip workflow and accent archetype technology for Pulse.
Specialized Education Tools
• The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute will advance applications to abetment visually-
impaired acceptance with acquirements through Pulse.
• ViewPlus will aftermath arresting blush images with their Emprint™ SpotDot Braille Embosser
that works with Pulse.
By accouterment an accessible platform, architecture a able developer abutment program, and alms targeted
distribution channels, Livescribe will accommodate an adorable business befalling for developers. Software
developers absorbed in designing applications for Beating should e-mail developer@livescribe.com.
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