Not sure how this one slipped under my radar but last month Livescribe was recognised in the list of winners in Wall Street Journals Technology Innovation Awards for 2009
Livescribe was recognised in the consumer electronics section with a runner-up award.
It’s great to see Livescribe being recognised around the world. Given what we expect to see in 2010 from Livescribe I wouldn’t be surprised to see further recognition.
Keep up the good work team
If you’re an existing Livescribe Pulse Smartpen user, you would have received an email from Livescribe today about the new products coming through the system.
Great news from the team and a reflection of how they listen and react to market feedback!
Not surprisingly we’ve already fielded dozens of calls, emails, and Tweets about when the 4GB will be available here – stay tuned as I don’t have details yet.
Here are the key points about the news this week:
As we learn more about these new products we’ll share it here first.
Great news through today from the Livescribe team with the announcement of a new model – the Livescribe 4GB Pulse Smartpen.
This latest model will record up to 400 hours of audio.
We don’t have any details as to availability here in Australia or pricing. Once we do we’ll let everyone know.
In addition to this, Smartpen will be introducing a number of new product bundles aimed at business and academic/student users. These new bundles will include the current Livescribe Pulse Smartpen plus the most popular accessories based on the sales data that we’ve collected over the past 15 months of sales.
I’m pleased to advise that we’ve added MyScript for Livescribe into our Smartpen store.
MyScript for Livescribe
The product has been very popular with Livescribe users, so we’ve done two things:
If you’re wondering how the product works, this blog post was created by my Livescribe pen. The image below is from MyScript and shows my hand written draft post on the left and then the transcription on the right.
MyScript for Livescribe - turning my hand writing into text
I wrote out what I wanted in the blog post in my spiral notebook, and then used MyScript to turn my hand writing into text. This text was then copied into this blog post.
Our customers share some great stories with us about how they use their Livescribe Pulse Smartpens. This is another great example of how the pen can be used.
Suzi Wong is an Adelaide based user who writes about her cooking and eating adventures. Suzi is also a full time student doing an honours research project on classroom management practices of beginning teachers.
Recently Suzi wrote about how her mothers’ decision to pass on her cookbooks to her got her thinking about how she could do the same for her daughters.
The solution for Suzi is her Livescribe Smartpen.
The cover page for Suzi's recipe book in the Livescribe notebook
The Livescribe Smartpen and notebook allows Suzi to create books of family recipes that she can then store and print as she wishes.
The personal touch of hand-written recipes is timeless. Here’s another example of what Suzi is creating.
An example of a recipe that Suzi has created
This is a great example of how to use the Livescribe Smartpen.
Thanks for sharing this Suzi and best of luck with the recipes
We’ve written before about the new Pencast feature available in the Livescribe Desktop. It’s a very cool feature as it allows you to create YouTube-like snippets of content and then share this out with your audience.
So if you’ve been wondering about Pencasts – could you use them in a learning environment? Watch this Livescribe Pencast as it’s a great example of how to use this feature.
Sigh…all we need now is integration to Microsoft OneNote and Apple Evernote…
Over the past few months we’ve been running a really great offer whereby the Livescribe Pulse 2GB Smartpen has been bundled with MyScript for Livescribe. Our regional distributor organised this for us and it’s been very successful (thanks John!).
We’re currently investigating whether we extend the special offer or even create a special offer or special bundle.
We need your feedback.
If you purchased a Pulse Smartpen how important was it for MyScript to be included?
Should we extend the offer?
What are your thoughts?
Great news from Livescribe over the weekend for our MAC community. The Mac Livescribe Desktop v1.2 for Snow Leopard is now live!
We’ve included the release notes here.
Livescribe recommends this upgrade only for customers using Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). This update is not recommended for customers using Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5).
Livescribe made improvements to Livescribe Desktop to add new features, correct known issues, and improve usability:
We’ll post a link to the documentation as soon as we have it.
If you have any questions you can contact us via comments – or via Twitter – Smartpen or Livescribe
Ahh Newcastle. Why have I not been back to your fine city for so long?
Friday was the final day of the Assistive Technology Forum and I was looking forward to another cracking day showcasing Livescribe to the assembled delegates.
Given this was the home town for the organiser I was expecting a great day – and they didn’t disappoint. You kind of forget that Newcastle’s like a big country town – so when you meet locals like Tony Wilks or Veronica McLoughlin – you realise how much you miss the country…
As we experienced earlier in the week, visitors to our booth left amazed at the capabilities of Livescribe and yet again, I was able to rely on existing customers to do demo’s for us.Yet again, the unanswered question is how we can integrate Livescribe into other products and deeper and better into your Learning Management Systems – we’ll keep sending your suggestions and thoughts up to the team in the US.
Thanks also to those who stopped by the booth. Clearly some of you have a very funny sense of humour given the written notes in the pads – the funniest? Yes I have a shiny head. And for those Kiwi’s who stopped by and worked out that I’m a Rugby fan – not funny.
If you attended and have any follow up questions, feel free to contact us. Hopefully we’ll see many of you at the next event.
thanks
The past couple of weeks have been very busy for us. The downside is that what I consider to be a great level of service has slipped. Over the past 7 days we’ve dropped the ball in terms of getting our orders out on time and complete and as such I’d like to apologise to a number of our customers who’ve been adversely affected.
There has been a major extenuating factor that has been outside our control but I won’t be using this isn’t an excuse. We could have done better.
We’re disappointed that this has happened and I’d like you to know that we will do our best to avoid this happening again.
Thank you for your patience and thanks also for your feedback.
Mark
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