Savior!

Today at work we had to do a tutorial for a new technology that I unfortunately do not have. I thought it was going to be dumb and give me ample scribble-in-my-notebook-time. Then I was amazed.

It's called a livescribe pen. What it does (I will attach their website below) is that it is just like a regular pen, but it has a camera and an audio recorder. What it does is that while you are writing on their special paper it is recording the strokes of your pen. When you are doing an interview or talking to yourself it records the audio of the person's dialogue as you write. After you record the audio and write down what the person said you can do a playback of what the person said by touching the pen to the paper where you want to start the audio. It automatically starts.

You can connect the livescribe to the computer and the pen with its little camera has recorded what you have written by the pen strokes and voila your handwriting is on the computer. No scanning, you just upload the file onto the computer from your pen onto the livescribe website through your pen. If you recorded audio with the writing, you can watch as the audio highlights the words the person is saying. If this is confusing, here is the tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO5GwLFlN3s&annotation_id=annotation_752605&feature=iv

Why is this important? Well it is mostly if you are a person who cannot write on a computer like me, and like a good, sturdy legal pad. What is even better is that my ideas usually come faster than my handwriting so I can have audio.

I wish I knew about this technology back when I was talking notes frantically and could not keep up. I sound like an advertisement, but it really is one of the greatest technologies I have seen in awhile.

Here's the website:
http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/