Revisión - pulso Smartpen de Livescribe

Fijado el 2 de junio de 2009 en 5:43

He sido bastante afortunado conseguir una unidad de la revisión del mucho-hyped Pulso Smartpen de LiveScribe! Si usted no ha oído hablar él antes, es un pequeño adminículo nitfy que le deja escribir notas en un cuaderno y más adelante conviértalas al texto digital almacenado en su computadora.

Sobre los últimos años, ha habido muchas tentativas de crear un producto que podría le dejó fácilmente capturar sus notas manuscritas en formato digital, pero nada realmente trabajó eso grande.

Cuando oí hablar de la pluma digital de LiveScribe, era inicialmente escéptico. Pero después de oír hablar él de tan mucha gente, decidía que tuve que ver para me. Aquí está la revisión realmente corta:

Si usted tiene la necesidad de escribir mucho en el papel, éste es el producto en gran medida mejor para capturar cualquier clase de notas manuscritas. No sólo que, liga audio a su texto manuscrito, así que a usted puede escribir-abajo notas rápidamente y registrar qué se está encendiendo alrededor de usted.

Es perfecto para los estudiantes y la gente que tienen que assistir a una gran cantidad de reuniones.

Cuál está en la caja

Aquí es lo que usted consigue cuando usted primero abre su nuevo pulso Smartpen:

¡De todas formas, una vez que usted escriba en su cuaderno, conecte simplemente el Smartpen de nuevo a la horquilla del USB y mire la magia! The software will automatically recognize that you connected the pen, will check for any new additions to the notebook, and if so, will upload them into the software for you!

As you can see, I’ve only used one page and the rest are empty. As you write on the pages, more will show up individually. Simply double-click on a page to view the digital version of it.

There are a few things to note in the above image. Firstly, you notice that some text is black and some is green, namely the circle. What does that mean? Anything green means there is recorded audio linked to that text.

Simply click on the green text and you will hear all the audio that was recorded while the text was being written! Cool huh? The other great feature of the Smartpen is that all your hand-written text notes can be searched instantly.

And this was probably the most impressive feature of all because my hand-writing is horrendous, however, the desktop application was able to find just about every word I typed. For example, I searched the word “again” and it found it and highlighted it:

The search feature is excellent and very useful if you take a lot of notes, but can’t remember where you wrote what. If you can remember one word, you’ll be able to find the notes using Livescribe.

To record audio while writing something in the notebook, just click the Record button that is at the bottom of each page in the notebook. They are basically special controls that let you navigate all the pens’ features and applications.

You can also create a bookmark anywhere in the notebook and then use the controls at the bottom to skip to previous or next bookmarks. You can use the Jump To Position control on the page to move around the page quickly if listening to audio.

The pen can hold up to 100 hours of audio and if you ever run out of space, you can delete them from the pen, but still have them stored on your computer. Of course, you won’t be able to listen to the audio by just using the pen if you delete an audio session, but it will remain on the computer.

But that’s not all. You can also upload your notes along with audio and create what is called a “pencast”. A pencast is basically a replay of your written notes along with the audio. Check one out here:

Demo lecture - “Crossing the Chasm”
brought to you by Livescribe

Pretty neat eh? You can create your own pencasts and share them on your blog or website. This is great for teachers or anyone who wants to explain an idea or concept to someone using pen and paper.

Overall, the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen is an excellent tool for anyone who writes a lot. It’s simple to use, works very well, and has a lot of great features. Enjoy!

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