Livescribe Pulse smart pen fathers day deal - only $88 for the 2GB unit. You can pay for shipping, or have it delivered free to your local Office Works store (or pick it up if they have stock).
It's a pretty good deal, and the Livescribe pen is excellent if you're a student or take a lot of notes. I love mine, picked up an extra couple for friends.
"It's a pretty good deal, and the Livescribe pen is excellent if you're a student or take a lot of notes. I love mine, picked up an extra couple for friends."
So you bought 3 of those and you're still so excited about it? Really you aren't an OZ bargainer!
For those that own one of these, can you give some real world examples of how you use it? I'm just trying to figure out the usefulness of it. Rather than get hyped up about what it can do, will I really use it like that? Or will it just sit at the bottom of a drawer after a few months (like many of the items I've previously purchased to enrich my life/productivity).
A typical example if you're a student and at school you take a lot of notes, then you go back home connect your gadget to your computer and have all digitally transferred and copied/edited in a word processor.
I never used this new stuff so I don't know if what suppliers promise is something really works or maybe you'll have one more item sitting in your draw LOL
I'm pretty tempted… do you have any sources for cheap notepads for them?
If you google around you can find a postscript file which you can print out on your own printer. It might require some colour calibration though, and apparently at least a 600dpi printer.
I got mine from officeworks a month ago for $129.
@marquise
Real world example. When I'm in class I can just set the pen to record and guarantee that I won't miss a single word of what was said by the lecturer. This means that I won't need to think about what to write down and what not to, I can just jot down a few words and later I can listen back to what was said at that time. Really helps when you want to quote your lecturer in an essay or exam.
This pen is extremely useful for technicians. We have the ones that bluetooth to mobile phones and send encrypted service sheets back to the office. We can't rely on technicians to keep good records and return papers when they get back to base.
The pen reads dots in the paper, lets you know which page you're on and what areas you're writing on. Extremely useful there
Do you need the special notebook to record or will a regular notepad suffice?
you need a special notebook with specially printed dots, otherwise the pen doesn't know where it is
i'm not sure if you can print the booklets yourself
Very long whirlpool thread about the pen; http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/752364
And more printable notebooks; http://www.livescribe.com/int/faq/support_forum.html#/forums…
A dedicated forum for different printable notebooks; http://www.livescribe.com/int/faq/support_forum.html#/forums…
Note that the ink refills are apparently proprietary. The pulse version has a proprietary headphone socket. The echo uses a standard 3.5mm mini-jack.
The echo can be had for $127 at amazon.com, with $8 shipping to Australia; http://www.amazon.com/Livescribe-4-GB-Echo-Smartpen/dp/B003R… . The pulse model is probably on its way out.
$127 at amazon ?
I get
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How do you get shipping to Aus at $8 ?
DSE have a few accessories at half price atm:
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XP7909/livescribe-usb-chargi…
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XP7908/livescribe-a5-spiral-…