To sync their notes - and now their e-mails and status updates - by connecting the device to a PC. And in an age of ubiquitous wireless connections, the Echo smartpen still requires users Some pundits have predicted they willīut other technologies, most notably smartphone and tablets, have come a long way since Livescribe introduced its first smartpen. The technology, which allows users to synchronize digital notes and audio, isĭazzling, and the pens have received positive reviews. Marggraff said the company had since sold about one million pens. Livescribe introduced its first smartpen, the Pulse, four years ago.

“For 100 bucks you get to author content in ways you couldn’t before,” Mr. Livescribe is also introducing a new version of its Echo smartpen with 2 GB of storage that will sell for $99.

Inventor of digital pen technologies and the chief executive of Livescribe, which is based in Oakland, Calif. Other “connectors” to services like Twitter are coming, said Jim Marggraff, a pioneering The new service, Livescribe Connect, also allows users to upload their digital notes to Google Docs and Evernote. That’s the aim of a new service introduced on Monday by Livescribe, which makes a line of smartpens that record digital notes and audio.

Think about updating your Facebook status with pen and paper or sending an e-mail directly from an old-fashioned notebook (the paper kind). A Livescribe Echo smartpen that can move notes to Facebook, Twitter or Evernote.

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