![]() ![]() The tiny LED display is bright and readable, and there's a built-in mic and speaker, both of which are adequate for general use. What impressed me was the balance of the pen. You'll also have to keep your fingers from covering the sensor/scanner window near the tip, but the design itself ensures that gripping the pen that low isn't comfortable. The pen is remarkably light, although really tiny hands may find it slightly uncomfortable with prolonged use. If you need digital copies of everything you write, or want to capture a lecture with written notes, there's simply nothing this compact and efficient. There's a "gee whiz" factor when you see your notes "playing" on the screen, with audio, and the pages turn as it progresses. ![]() If you're the impatient sort, I can say that I really like the pen and the software. ![]() There are other features "coming soon" I'll describe in the main review.Ĭheck out the gallery for lots of screenshots and close-ups of the pen. Of course, the app is still in beta, and the feature is coming, but this is a limitation for some. On the Windows version you can export a Flash file that shows you drawing and plays audio as it was recorded. What you can't do is marry the animation of your drawings (that is, the replay of your writing) with the audio for export. You can export audio recordings as AAC files. On the Mac, you can print your pages but to save as a PDF you drop into the Print dialog. Livescribe Desktop on the Mac certainly looks and behaves as a Mac app should, but unfortunately the Mac version doesn't yet have all the features of the Windows version. I was informed that some of the folks who had a hand in creating the Mac app for Livescribe were honest-to-Jobs former Apple employees and the app is written in Cocoa - a refreshing change of pace in a world beset by hasty Mac ports. Details on the giveaway at the end of the review. I had a chance to test drive the Pulse and the beta version of the Mac app, and now we're giving that demo unit to one lucky TUAW reader. The pen captures what you write, and the desktop app allows you to store and playback your writing and captured audio on your computer. The Pulse Smartpen has been around for a while, but until late last month the desktop software from Livescribe was Windows-only. ![]()
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