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Awesome new tool for students
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 01, 2008, 06:56:49 pm ---Write an equation on your paper and the answer will appear automatically on the screen. Need a translation? Write a word on the paper and get the translation on the screen, and spoken through the speaker. Kinda cool.
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Does it do those things already? From the site I got that those were more like concepts rather than an actually available thing.
BTW how would taking audio notes help you solve the problem of going through notes for all your lectures?
shmokes:
Because instead of getting the most out of class, I'm transcribing the entire lecture. I end up with WAY more notes than I could possibly go through. This allows you to pay attention in class and just jot down a word or two when needed. No need to be exhaustive. If you look back at your notes and see something that doesn't make sense, just tap on it with your pen and listen to exactly what the professor said that made you write those words down.
The calculator stuff is definitely built-in. I'm not sure if it ships with the translator, but I know that it is a product that is in development cos I read a preview from a tech blog that got to test one out, and they tested the translating function. Also, the Fly Fusion pen I mentioned from Leap Frog already has identical translator products except that they don't output to the screen, cos that pen doesn't have a screen. I think that the translator software will be a separate (read: not free) product. And I don't know how close to launch it will be ready. But people have already had at least an incomplete version of it running on the pen. The calculator is definitely built-in, though. I'm pretty sure, actually, that it's a full scientific calculator, too.
shmokes:
Also, I totally agree that the usefulness of this thing goes way beyond students. Off the top of my head it has OBVIOUS application in journalism. I imagine cops using these during interrogations, and even when just on the beat talking to people or while issuing traffic tickets. Lawyers taking depositions.
patrickl:
Not sure if this was posted already, but I saw a page with two demo's given by the CEO and marketing director.
Livescribe Demos
It's so annoying that I will probably never be able to get one of these pens. They don't ship outside of the US and the company seems too small to really make it. My best bet is if they get bought by a bigger company, but seeing how they are trying to roll this out on their own doesn't make that very likely.
BTW this whole thing will never work without the special paper. It's the paper that allows the pen to see where you click on the page. They do say you can print your own paper. So you don't need to buy expensive notebooks if you don't want to (although printing the pages probably might actually cost more than buying a $5 100 page book).
HaRuMaN:
TI-89's are great for tests... you can write text files to the calculator's memory... not that I would know anything about this... >:D
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