Smart pen - recorder?

[Hotflashn]

Does anyone know anything about the Pulse Smart Pen? I ran across a (good) review in Popular Science and checked the website www.livescribe.com Supposedly you can record digital audio as you take notes, and then it syncs the recording to your notes, so by tapping on your notes you can hear what was being recorded at the time you wrote the word. You can also upload the notes and audio to your computer and/or put it online. Looks a lot like my kids' "Fly Pen" which was more of a toy. It seem like a great idea, and would be so cool for NS, but I don't want to invest in a gadget that may be unreliable or is hard to use. Maybe if I get in somewhere soon I will treat myself.

Anyone know anything about it?

[Mahage, LPN]

I have one and as long as you don't run into any glitches it is wonderful. Problems are the battery would run down, and it was not holding a charge well. Come to find out, my computer had not gat all its updates and when I was docking it, it was not fully recharging and was not down loading my notes. I also ran out of ink frequently. I am not real techno savy and a person who had more comprehension might have noted that it was not fully charging and investigating. With me it seemed like this spring it was always something with that pen. But I really found it useful when it worked.

Mahage