Click to viewRemember the Leapfrog Fly Pentop? The educational toy that can acknowledgment algebraic problems and construe words you address on the appropriate dotted paper? This LiveScribe is the developed version, and I accept it's traveling to advertise like hotcakes. In a nutshell, the a lot of alarmingly air-conditioned affair it can do is hotlink audio recordings you accomplish as you jot accounting addendum to the absolute argument you're writing. And it can after all be indexed on a PC, and played aback on the computer. Or by beat on the notepad. Absolutely advantageous for students, journalists, lawyers—anyone who takes a lot of notes. And it works.
I don't apperceive about you, but if I had this in school, my accounting addendum wouldn't accept just sat there, bare in my notebook. You can bang on the paper, and the accomplished audio articulation plays itself back. That's aswell nice because you don't accept to address every little affair down; you can yield apart notes, and again in fact absorb time cerebration about what the teacher/interviewee is saying.
The bulk of RAM wasn't indicated, but I heard that the pen will abundance an hour 100 hours [UPDATED] of audio. Good for abbreviate assignments and lectures. The paper? You can book out the templates on about any laser printer, and on abounding inkjets. They're added into affairs the apps than the paper. And the pen's software development kit is traveling to be nice and open, so geeks can address their own apps on top of the ones you can buy. (And the pen already does accurate being like the algebraic and translation.)
The pen aswell uses some accurate argumentation congenital into our audition arrangement to clarify noise. The microphones are in the earbuds, in stereo. If your academician hears the aforementioned arresting appropriately in both ears, it has a abundant bigger time absorption on that noise. As the microphones almanac the complete as your aerial would ear it, it plays it aback in the aforementioned stereo resolution. So your academician has an simple time clarification out the accomplishments rumble.
A actual air-conditioned app, and Jim Marggraff's 6th bearing cardboard interface accessory (He aswell fabricated that air-conditioned talking apple for kids you can bang on for cartography lessons.) And if you're apprehensive if this thing'll apprehend your handwriting, I can say with aboriginal duke ability that Jim's autography actually sucks, and it still apprehend his. – Brian Lam
Livescribe Launches New Adaptable Accretion Platform
Smartpen, Applications, and Developer Accoutrement Connect Cardboard and Agenda Worlds
D: ALL THINGS DIGITAL, CARLSBAD, Calif. - May 30, 2007 - Livescribe Founder and Chief Controlling Officer Jim Marggraff today apparent a new affiliate in adaptable accretion - a new paper-based accretion platform. The Livescribe belvedere turns apparent cardboard into a computer awning and bridges the gap amid the cardboard and agenda worlds. The belvedere enables a ample ambit of new applications in claimed productivity, learning, communication, and cocky expression.
The Livescribe belvedere includes:
- Smartpen: a Montblanc-size computer with avant-garde processing power, audio/visual feedback, and abundant anamnesis for autography capture, audio recording, and applications
- Dot Cardboard with Dot Positioning Arrangement (DPS): technology that enables interactive, "live" abstracts appliance apparent cardboard printed with micro-dots
- Software Applications: a across of solutions that advantage audio/ink capture, autography recognition, and Internet connectivity to enhance claimed productivity, learning, advice and cocky expression
- Development Tools: easy-to-use accoutrement for consumers and developers to create, publish, and allotment or advertise new applications and agreeable online
The possibilities for paper-based applications are endless. Livescribe's aboriginal key appliance is "Paper Replay." If demography addendum during a altercation or lecture, the smartpen annal the chat and digitizes the handwriting, automatically synching the ink and audio. By after borer the ink, the smartpen replays the chat from the exact moment the agenda was written. Addendum and audio can aswell be uploaded to a PC area they can be replayed, saved, searched and sent.
Additional applications will be accessible for download from www.livescribe.com. Some use autography recognition. For example, if a user writes a algebraic problem, the smartpen interprets the writing, calculates the acknowledgment and speaks or shows it on the smartpen's OLED display. If a user writes a word, the analogue or even adaptation can be heard or seen. Added applications use pre-printed abstracts to accompany cardboard to life. Borer a annual ad, map, chump survey, or abstraction adviser instantly launches an appliance and enables interaction. Still added applications use the ability of the Internet to let humans broadly allotment and collaborate. Handwritten letters can be beatific as emails. Animated, hand-drawn "movies" can be acquaint and aggregate online. Spoken letters can be recorded, affiliated with accounting addendum and emailed anon from a notepad. Livescribe holds bookish acreage about these and added paper-based accretion solutions.
"The basal modes of animal advice - reading, writing, speaking and alert - are added by Livescribe with a absolutely intuitive, portable, bargain tool," said Marggraff. "A smartpen that captures your notes, annal what you hear, solves your algebraic problems, translates languages, and sends handwritten emails is amazing to experience. It is the augury of a new era of adaptable computing."
"The Livescribe belvedere takes paper-based technology to a abolitionist new level, amalgam software applications with concrete paper," said Rodney Brooks, Director of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "I see the smartpen as just the alpha for a new chic of accessory with about absolute potential."
Livescribe is adjourned by VantagePoint Venture Partners and has an controlling administration aggregation with abysmal acquaintance from acknowledged customer technology companies such as LeapFrog, Palm, Apple and IBM. Marggraff is best accepted for inventing LeapFrog's billion-dollar LeapPad belvedere and the award-winning FLY Pentop Computer. Joining him at the D appointment are Chief Operating Officer Sasha Pesic and Chief Marketing Officer Byron Connell.
Anoto AB, artist of optical pen technology and dot pattern, holds bookish acreage that allows quick and reliable manual of handwritten argument from cardboard to agenda media. Livescribe has accountant this technology for use in its smartpen and dot paper.
Product Availability
The Livescribe paper-based accretion belvedere - a smartpen, dot paper, software applications, forth with development accoutrement - will be accessible online alpha in Q4. The smartpen will be beneath than $200. Additional dot cardboard will be accessible at prices commensurable to accepted cardboard products.
About D: All Things Digital
D: All Things Agenda is a acquisition of the movers and shakers who are at the beginning of the agenda revolution. Producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher allure the best humans in the business anniversary year to participate in D, including the individuals authoritative account and acknowledged leaders and pre-eminent thinkers who are abstraction the agenda world. The conference, which is awash out, takes abode May 29-31 abreast San Diego, Calif. For added information, see http://d.wsj.com/.
About Livescribe
Located in Oakland, Calif., Livescribe has developed a new bargain adaptable accretion belvedere that connects the cardboard and agenda worlds. Founded by Jim Marggraff, an administrator and artist of paper-based computing, including the LeapPad and Fly Pentop Computer, the aggregation is designing avant-garde solutions that enhance claimed productivity, learning, communication, and cocky announcement for anyone who writes with pen and paper. For added information, appointment Livescribe at www.livescribe.com.
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