Livescribe’s Jim Marggraff Pushes a Pen-Based Computing Revival

When she started at the University of California at Berkeley, grad student Christen Penny tried to transcribe her professors’ lectures faithfully by hand. Within two weeks she recognized she was falling behind because she couldn’t take notes fast enough. So when a fellow student recommended a boxy black pen with a recorder inside, she bought one. The $150 device, called the Echo Smartpen, records speech and links it digitally to notes on paper. More...