Jim Marggraff announced the release in 2007 Q4 of Livescribe paper-based computing platform for less than $200.

The Livescribe platform turns plain paper into a computer screen and bridges the gap between the paper and digital worlds. The platform enables a broad range of new applications in personal productivity, learning, communication, and self expression.

Watch the animated sneak peek for glimpses into how this smart pen can write on paper, download the writing to a PC, record audio, capture visual images, send emails, and store wherever you keep a pen.

Jim Brown refers (06-01-07) to the pen as a new way to do think aloud protocols.

Tom McDonnell, Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law opines that it may chill free speech in schools.

What do you think, Tableteers? How will use a smart pen?

The pen comes with features I used to wish my Captain Midnight secret decoder ring had, but the ring cost only an Ovaltene bottle label, probably as big a purchase then as $200 today!

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