The best tech for honor students

Look, not everyone is cut out for late nights of drinking and playing DJ for groups of frat kids. Some would prefer to campout in the library until the wee hours of the morning studying and pouring over notes and lectures. Of course, the days of pen,...

Livescribe’s latest smartpen is aimed at writing buffs

Livescribe had the canny idea of letting you digitize your art by drawing with ink on actual paper, and it's trying to make the drawing experience better with the Livescribe 3 Black Edition. The pen has a grippy matte black finish with a glass-reinfo...

Xbox One Dashboard Turns up on Video, Livescribe 3 Smartpen Debuts, Samsung Considers Blocking Third-Party Accessories, and More


Microsoft offered up a video today that shows the Xbox One dashboard. The video shows the level of multitasking possible using the new Xbox console. Apple is set to announce its sales...

Livescribe 3 Smartpen is a $150 Note-Taking Companion for Mobile Devices


Go back a year in time and the Sky Wi-Fi pen was quite a sensation. And yet there were issues that it faced. These obstacles begged to be resolved.  The biggest hurdle in its way was the Wi-Fi...

Livescribe 3 smartpen appears in FCC filing, can’t wait to digitize your doodles

Livescribe 3 smartpen appears in FCC filing, can't wait to digitize your doodles

Now that we've got those naming suits out of the way, it's time to get down to brass tacks. With "brass tacks" involving a new smartpen, in this particular instance. The Livescribe 3 has just made itself known in a public FCC filing today, showcasing a svelte writing utensil whose main purpose in life is to digitize your handwritten notes. It's equipped with Bluetooth in order to pair with your iOS device and the accompanying Livescribe+ app, and once you start doodling in your Livescribe notebook, those very scribbles will appear in the app. There's a micro-USB connector on top for recharging it, and a handy twistable handle that turns the unit on. (Oh, and if you're curious, we're told that "more supported devices" will be added soon.)

For the power users, there are Pencasts -- said to be "interactive documents containing audio that is synchronized to your handwritten notes." As is always the case with FCC reveals, pricing and availability are nowhere to be found; that said, an FCC submission generally signals that it's just about ready for store shelves in the US. We'll watch as you attempt to digitally write about the art of containing your excitement.

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Livescribe renames Sky smartpen after losing trademark dispute with BSkyB

Livescribe renames Sky smartpen to 'wifi smartpen' after trademark dispute with BSkyB

Livescribe v BSkyB was one of the stranger trademark battles we've seen recently, because the two companies operate in such different spheres -- one makes smartpens, the other runs TV and internet services. Nevertheless, the English High Court has now ruled in favor of BSkyB, forcing Livescribe to recall all stock bearing the offending three-letter word and to re-baptize its "Sky wifi smartpen" simply as the "wifi smartpen". Suddenly, the packaging left over from our review of the device just feels so naughty.

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