11. What’s in the future for Pulse apps?
Some people just like the feel of a pen and paper for note-taking. For them, there’s a $150 system that records everything, and writes on dot matrix paper.
As we’ve shown, the Pulse Smartpen has potential—it’s great for note taking and recording audio simultaneously. It’s a tool that we all wish we had back in school and that many of us could use in the workplace. Yet, while the pen itself is already extremely refined, what about the applications?
The app store is in Beta and the growing list of downloadable applications is short. Some are useful, while others are an utter joke. Livescribe is looking to continue its line of productivity apps with calculators, more dictionaries, and more simple yet ever-important tools.
Third parties have offered more sophisticated, less polished applications specific to their fields. Several chemistry-based apps are available and we expect to see plenty more involving sciences and math, as well as other school subjects. It won’t be long until people use these pens to cheat on tests.
- 1. The Pen
- 2. The Pad
- 3. The Software: Livescribe Desktop
- 4. The Accessories
- 5. MyScript
- 6. Hangman
- 7. The “American Heritage Spanish Dictionary”
- 8. Piano
- 9. Video Poker
- 10. Unit2Unit
- 11. What’s in the future for Pulse apps?
This pen is certainly not new, it's been around for quite a while. It's kinda cool that it actually runs Java apps, opens up a lot of possibilities.
I have near illegible writing. I'll stick to a PC for now
This pen is certainly not new, it's been around for quite a while. It's kinda cool that it actually runs Java apps, opens up a lot of possibilities.
Exactly--the pen is not new (though new models with different colors and storage capacities are recent), but the app store is. Sort of changes the product and makes it worth another look, in our book.
until they make it pen-sized, i don't care.
until they make it pen-sized, i don't care.
Pen sized? Pen sizes vary greatly...I've got some really thin pens that I like, and some really thick ones that are also comfortable. The Pulse isn't too thick to use comfortably, but it is larger than most pens you can buy in your local office supply store.
Actually the Pulse is too thick to write comfortable for more than 15 minutes at a time. After that it makes ridges into your fingers. It also lacks a clip, so it tends to roll off the desk quite easily. The pen works well, as advertised but the diameter is too large and unwieldy.