Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Review
When the iPhone first came out in the summer of 2007, I knew to wait at a minimum six months so as to give Apple enough time to work out all the kinks in the phone’s firmware. My wait paid of, especially since during that time the price of the iPhone dropped significantly. When the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen became widely available, I told myself that I would again wait at a minimum six months for all the kinks to be worked out, especially since I had never before heard of Livescribe. Unfortunately, when I saw a live demo at Target I broke down and shelled out for a 2GB Pulse on the spot. The Pulse lets you record the sounds and background noise around you as you jot notes down. What makes the Pulse so interesting is that you can play back the recording simply by clicking on the notebook where you had written. The pen will playback the audio recorded near the time when you wrote the area that you tapped. The Pulse integrates and plays back the written word with the spoken word.
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