An infrared camera, ARM processor, Bluetooth Smart chipset, flash memory and lithium-ion battery all work together to bring your notes to life on your tablet or smartphone. Putting The Smart in Smartpen: The streamlined design of the Livescribe 3 smartpen conceals an astonishing amount of technology. It may look more refined but this is still the best tech pen on the market. Looks great doesn’t it? And that’s just the beginning.
No one looking at the first Livescribe Smartpens would mistake them for anything but what they were- a high-tech pens. That’s a lot of tech and functionality that needed to be built into something that looks like a pen. And since there were times when the audio would be problematic were it playing out loud, the company had to add a headphone jack. Since the pen needed to be able to communicate with the user AND record audio, it needed a microphone and speaker built in. This resulted in the need for buttons, a screen and a port for recharging. In addition, since the device was designed to stand as its own independent unit, there needed to be a way to control it, see what it was doing and recharge it. For example, the tip of the pen had to house the camera that tracks the pen’s movements when used with special Livescribe paper. Part of that was simply a result of technical necessities. Previous Livescribe Smartpens were fine, but they very much looked like tech pens. With the Livescribe 3 Smartpen the company set out to do two main things… and they achieved both.įirst, they wanted to move the pen a bit forward in the ergonomics and aesthetics department.
With the Livescribe 3 Smartpen, the device takes a huge leap forward, and in the process becomes an extension of your phone or tablet.
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Updates to the hardware and software since then have been notable evolutionary steps forward. I purchased the very first one and used it constantly. I’ve long been a fan of Livescribe’s smartpens.