Especially in a class where the professor has an unreasoning hatred of laptops.
But seriously. I bought one out of curiosity and played with it for a couple of days. But while I'd have killed for one during my university days, today I just reach for a keyboard. To get the most out of it, you need to carry around: (a) the Livescribe pen, (b) at least one notepad, and (c) the earbuds/microphones. And you need (d) the docking/charge cradle and (e) a laptop to synch with at the end of the day. If you need pen-based on-the-go note taking, why not buy a second hand Palm TX, or an HP iPaq 210? And if you don't like writing by hand, why are you bothering?
The killer use case for it is where you need to record an audio track synched to your handwriting. For lecture notes, it's a monumental and amazingly cool solution. For other applications, well, I'm still trying to think of one.
This is a really nice implementation of an idea that is undoubtedly great for some people ... just not for me.
But seriously. I bought one out of curiosity and played with it for a couple of days. But while I'd have killed for one during my university days, today I just reach for a keyboard. To get the most out of it, you need to carry around: (a) the Livescribe pen, (b) at least one notepad, and (c) the earbuds/microphones. And you need (d) the docking/charge cradle and (e) a laptop to synch with at the end of the day. If you need pen-based on-the-go note taking, why not buy a second hand Palm TX, or an HP iPaq 210? And if you don't like writing by hand, why are you bothering?
The killer use case for it is where you need to record an audio track synched to your handwriting. For lecture notes, it's a monumental and amazingly cool solution. For other applications, well, I'm still trying to think of one.
This is a really nice implementation of an idea that is undoubtedly great for some people ... just not for me.