Now, Walt Mossberg...He's not cool.

But this pen...now that's cool!

Dear Mr. Crocker

You are the champion of GBM! I will waiting for this pen; for now, I will be using my Fujistu ST5110 :)

It's a super Leapfrog pen. I don't know about it. Seems really handy if you're a college student. Requiring special paper is not cool. If they went so far to requiring that paper, might as well include bluetooth and make it a wireless wacom-type device.

Hate to be a grammar/spelling Nazi, but I like to try not to spread misinformation. It should be "embedded". You guys may want to consider looking for an editor or something, these typos and mistakes can be pretty egregious at times.

Actually I don't think this will ever work as a successful long term business model. On the other hand I can see the idea taking off on a tablet.

If you are familiar with Onenote which allows recording as well as writing in ink on a tablet, you will know that the recorded file is given an icon on the page once it has stopped recording. You can click on the icon and hear the recording. But it is not positional in the way that this applications recording is.

But the tablet already knows precisely the position on the tablet that the pen is inking - the equivalent of the special paper's dots in the demo video - and therefore with a little tweak the same voice recording liniked to tablet ink position could easily be incorporated into applications on the tablet such as Onenote. And boy, would that be a boon for students and for laywers in court and people in meetings and so on - to be able to link the precise recorded speech to the precise ink point.

I do hope that the Onenote people take up on this idea dn tha the patent isn't too stringent in the hands of the Live Scribe people and that the live scribe people are not too wedded to the pen idea not to see the benefits of releasing the software model outside of their pen idea.

Rod

Nice idea, but I'd prefer to have a similar facility on OneNote which allows me to do the same eg. look back at my notes as they were written with the sound that was taking place at the time I was writing. Very nice idea.