Smartpens

It's been a while, but I've got a cool one to pick up on: smartpen technology.

One of the most common are the Fly Fusion pens, but I wanted to start off with the Pulse by Livescribe. Very cool. I'm jazzed that it'll record audio sync'd with your notes. That'll be useful for meetings. They say we'll be able to print our own sheets of paper as well, but that's not going to be available until the end of 2008. It doesn't do text capture yet, but again that's something that's supposedly coming by the end of the year. Big downsides for me are that it won't run on a Mac, even when using Parallels. I'll have to whip up a Windows partition now. The 2GB version also goes for $200. Ouch. I'm also concerned about the battery in these things. I hope we can at least send them back to the company if we need to get a new battery.