#LIVESCRIBE DESKTOP FOR PULSE PEN ARCHIVE#
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Designed to take binaural recordings, the microphones result in a stereo recording equivalent to how the user heard it at time of note-taking when heard over headphones.

The user can record sound simultaneously with taking notes, either to record one's talking to onesself or to record a meeting or lecture while taking notes upon it, so the original discussion can be replayed should the notes be insufficient.įor recordings from a better sonic focal point that do not result in remarkable detail and sound amplification of the scratching of the pen, the Pulse includes a set of microphone earphones, marketed as the 3D Recording Headset. This is the basis for LiveScribe's slogan, ' Never Miss A Word'. These are designed to catch both sound in the immedate vicinity and any speech of the user. Sound RecordingĮmbedded in the LiveScribe Pulse is a pair of microphones: one facing forward, one facing upwards. The ink cartridges are unremarkable ballpoint resivoirs of average quality superior to $0.05 stick pens, but not what one would hope for a $200 pen if it was not simultaneously a scanner replacement and a voice recorder. The activation pressure is less than normal writing pressure, but it is possible to mark the page without making a digital record, deliberately or accidentally.) The position of the camera leads to a somewhat unbalanced pen design the pen tip is in line with the top of the pen, not the center. (Writing with insufficient force on the page will therefore cause the camera not to activate and ink strokes not to be recorded. It is behind a lens behind the pen tip, and when the tip of the pen is pressed, a red LED is visible. The specifications of the camera are undisclosed.

#LIVESCRIBE DESKTOP FOR PULSE PEN SERIES#

(Each journal has a series and number two journals of the same series and number cannot be used simultaneously by the same pen, as they have identical patterns, and your notes will collide in an illegible mess of superimposed text-goo.) This includes through rotations, tilting, and the unfortunate tendency of ink to get scribbled all over the pattern for some reason. The camera can figure out the exact position of the pen, including which page it is on of which journal. They are quite visible when one looks, but for the most part they are easy to ignore. These dots are extremely small and light blue, a lighter shade than the ruled lines on the page. The dot pattern is patented by Anoto, from whom the dot paper is licensed. The Pulse is the latter, which ensures a constant cash flow to LiveScribe in the form of dot paper, which is the only writing surface the Pulse can locate itself on.ĭot paper is, as the name implies, paper covered with a very fine imperfect grid of dots in a very specific pattern.

There are two primary variations of smartpens: triangulators, which use a pair of sensors clipped to the top of the paper to watch for a signal being emitted by the pen and record the position of the pen on the page by calculating it via trigonometry and dot cameras, which have a small infrared camera in the tip that reads a special pattern of dots on the page that, within the vision range of the camera, does not repeat for a very large area.

#LIVESCRIBE DESKTOP FOR PULSE PEN ARCHIVE#

The LiveScribe Pulse is a variety of smartpen: a pen designed for close integration with a computer, to archive everything handwritten in clear digital format with a minimum of inconvenience.

It is marketed primarily to college students, but is useful in any endeavor that requires handwritten notes. Its banner feature is Paper Replay, the automatic coordination of locations on the page to points in the sound recording. It can best be summarized as the offspring of a smartpen and a digital voice recorder. The LiveScribe Pulse is the debut product of LiveScribe, Inc.

Livescribe desktop for pulse pen