Wemaybe all the timestaringintoour phonesand laptops,but Livescribe CEO Gilles Bouchardsays coopand paperare some-morepopularthanever—andhehas interpretationto behindit up.We wishto writeand pullthe approachwe regularlyhave,hesays,butwealso wishallthe sharing, present access,and searchabilitythat comewithour most appsand websites.So Bouchardand Livescribe set outto set up the deviceto overpassthat gap,and currentlyit’s announcingthe outcome—thenew Livescribe 3.

Livescribe penshave prolonged adored form over duty— last year’s Skywas thetiny mechanismbut thehuge, ungainly coop—so Bouchardandhis groupdecided initialand inauguralthatthe Livescribe 3wouldbe the high-end pen.Forthe initial timeever,the association workedwith the coop designer,andthe ensuing blackand chrome deviceisbeautiful, classy, expensive-looking,and eventually feelslike the essay apparatusratherthan the mini-computer.On the singleendis the elementary capacitive stylus,ontheotheran ink tipthat reveals itselfwith the twist.Youmight never noticeit’snotjust the normal pen,butwhenyouuse Livescribe’s notebooksand spinonyour iPad,it becomes something most some-more futuristic.

Livescribeis stillfor digitizingyour records–butit’s smarter now

The Livescribe 3′s first pursuit hasn’t changed:it takes recordsin special notebooks,and digitizes allyou writeor draw.Butthis time, insteadof the clunky desktop appor Evernote syncing, Livescribe’s builtitsown app, called Livecribe+,for syncing, viewing,and pity allyou write.


The appisbeautiful, simple,and surprisingly versatile.It recognizes allyou writein dissimilar sections, treating pagesas pagesbutalso phone numbersand addressesastheirown entities, searchableand sortablenotonlyby pagebutby timeandbytheir content. Write the phone number,and seconds afteryoucan supplementittoyour phone bookwithjust the single tap. Writean address, syncit, daubit,and perspectiveitin Maps.Youcan name snippetsor pagesand sharethemas PDFs,or savethem fasttoother apps.

There’salmostno recordinthe coop itself— allfromthe microphonetothe internet tieis storedinyour iOS device (Android awaitis entrance soon).That’showthe associationmade such the small, gentle device,butitalso equates toyou’ll regularly need the phoneto constraint audioor sync data.The coop connects around Bluetooth,and all the time sends data; anything we wroteshowed uponmy continuous iPadafteronly the secondorso.The pen’s batteryis ratedto final fourteen hours, yet evenwhenit’s“dead”it’s still the pen;your interpretation syncswhenyou bondit next.

The Livescribe 3isjust the coop—your phoneor inscriptiondoesmostofthe work

For $ 149.95the Livescribe 3is simplythe company’smost mainstream productyet— ultimately,it’s thegreat coopthatjust happenstohave the garlandof digital facilitiesifyou wishthem. Screensmaybe receiving overthe world,but coopand paper’snot passedyet.