(A color or monochrome laser printer works.) Livescribe sells notebooks in several styles, and users can also print their own dot paper with a laser printer capable of at least 600 dpi. Livescribe's special paper that allows the recording of notes uses a patented dot-positioning system licensed from Anoto.Īs with all Anoto pattern-based pens, the smartpen can only determine its position on the page when used with paper pre-printed with the dot pattern. It does not have support on Windows or Windows Phone. The Livescribe 3 currently has support on iOS and Android. As of August 2009, this is available on both Microsoft Windows and Mac (Intel-processor) systems. Handwriting recognition functionality is provided by a third-party application, MyScript by Vision Objects Inc., which sells separately for $29.95. On 31 August 2009, Livescribe released beta 1.2 which fixes all compatibility issues, albeit those who previously tried to install the old software would need to manually delete the old file extension. Īpple's release of Snow Leopard caused functionality and compatibility issues with Livescribe's driver installation. Livescribe has provided a user forum at the request of Linux users. There is no official Linux version at this time, however, there have been efforts to make the product work with Linux, such as LibreScribe and Smartpen-Browser. It requires OS X 10.5.5 or higher, and was one of nine products designated as "Best of Show" at Macworld Expo 2009. The product was initially available only for use with Microsoft Windows-based computers, but version 1.0 of Livescribe Desktop for the Mac was made available via download in March 2009. The pen's battery life improved and also still holds the written page content.Īvailability for operating systems The OLED screen and the microphone were omitted and the smart phone's display and microphone were used instead. This uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BT 4.0) to store the page content and audio on a smart phone.
It requires a special USB cradle and uses a 2.5mm headphone jack. The Pulse smartpen, released in March 2008, is available with either 1, 2 or 4 Gigabytes of flash storage.The pens can store about 100 hours of audio per gigabyte. Livescribe has made four versions of its smartpen: Pulse, Echo, Sky Wi-Fi (or Livescribe Wi-Fi), and Livescribe 3. If tapped on the correct images, it can function as a calculator, for example, or can translate words (the translator software as shipped includes only 21 words in a small selection of languages - as of September 2010 there are no public plans to make a full version of this translator available ). The smartpen allows the installation of as many applications as there is memory, and ships with several applications. Recorded audio is kept indexed with the handwritten text-tapping on a written word starts playback of the recorded audio from that part of the recording. The user can choose to record audio in addition to the handwritten text. Ī Livescribe smartpen is about the size and weight of a large pen (5/8" x 6 1/8"), and is equipped with a removable ball-point ink cartridge, a microphone to record audio, a speaker for playback, a small OLED display, an infra-red camera, and internal flash memory that captures handwritten notes, audio and drawings.
In November 2015, Livescribe announced its acquisition by Anoto for $15m. Jim Marggraff, inventor of the LeapFrog FLY Pentop computer and creator of the LeapPad Learning System, left Leapfrog in 2005 to form Livescribe. It is also possible to select which portion of a recording to replay by clicking on the relevant portion of a page on-screen, once it has been synced to the Livescribe Desktop software. This allows users to replay portions of a recording by tapping on the notes they were taking at the time the recording was made.
When used with Anoto digital paper, it records what it writes for later uploading to a computer, and synchronizes those notes with any audio it has recorded. The Livescribe paper-based computing platform consists of a digital pen, digital paper, software applications, and developer tools.Ĭentral to the Livescribe platform is the smartpen, a ballpoint pen with an embedded computer and digital audio recorder.
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