LiveScribe: This thing is insane.

[Descartes]

LiveScribe.

I'm generally very critical and otherwise don't recommend specific technologies to people, but this thing is great.

We've started using it for all our client interactions. One of us can have a meeting, synchronize the notes + recording and from that we can extrapolate proposals or whatever else necessary. It actually remembers how you wrote it, so you can literally playback the entire thing.

Not sure how this would work in an academic environment, but much of business still uses handwritten notes in meetings; we do, and I'll likely continue to do so since taking notes, designs, etc. on a laptop is inefficient.

Anyway, thought I'd share.

 

[bobert]

My mom just got me one this Christmas, since I'm a college student. I haven't actually gotten to test it out in a class room or a lecture hall. I've done a little testing with it though in my room and it seems to work great.

 

[Martin]

A coworker of mine got this a few weeks ago and showed it off. I thought it was really cool, thought I don't know about usefulness - haven't used it myself.

 

[Saga]

The depressing thing is I can remember thinking something exactly like this would make a great product back in highschool, but at the time technology wouldn't support it and over the years I just forgot about it.

Wish I had written down all of those ideas, I'm sure at least one of them is a viable product today and I'd be making millions off it.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Martin
A coworker of mine got this a few weeks ago and showed it off. I thought it was really cool, thought I don't know about usefulness - haven't used it myself.

Yeah, we struggled with that as well. We've found it to be useful primarily because we can capture requirements and get the audio associated with it. This helps clear up any confusion later on as we can always point to, "Well, you said..."

 

[sonambulo]

Originally posted by: Izusaga
The depressing thing is I can remember thinking something exactly like this would make a great product back in highschool, but at the time technology wouldn't support it and over the years I just forgot about it.

Me too, except my idea was for flying cars. Also personal jet packs.

 

[Delita]

That actually looks pretty cool. I might look into one of these

 

[vi edit]

These things are starting to get some traction in the medical community too. They have patient charts modified for the grid paper that Dr's use the pen to chart on. They then go back and synch the pen up and it "auto charts" what the Dr. wrote on the paper into the patients eletronic record (EMR).

You still have the paper copy with real ink to put on the paper chart to follow the patient on the floor, but you have the electronic version that is auto entered into the electronic version too. At some point they'll start integrating the voice piece in so that the doc can dictate right into the pen and then sync his impression along with the charting.

They might be doing that already, but at the time I was getting a product demo they hadn't gotten that far.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: Izusaga
The depressing thing is I can remember thinking something exactly like this would make a great product back in highschool, but at the time technology wouldn't support it and over the years I just forgot about it.

Wish I had written down all of those ideas, I'm sure at least one of them is a viable product today and I'd be making millions off it.

One of the first things you learn about entrepreneurship is that ideas are essentially worthless. What makes people rich is having the ability and resources to execute these ideas and turn them into something actually useful, which is infinitely harder than just sitting around thinking stuff up.

In the popular mindset, all you need is 1 brilliant idea and then everything falls into place and you become stinking rich, whereas if you look at the real world, you'll see most "brilliant ideas" were either obvious or shared by a large group of people. The people that actually got rich had the technical ability and/or business acumen to bring them to life.

So don't worry, you didn't lose anything because you didn't have anything to begin with.

 

[sao123]

I love litescribe... every time i burn a DVD I use it to burn a label. Many people have been impressed by the professional look it offers them over paper labels. Plus it wont ever peel away.

I just wish the process would work faster, and maybe eventually, they will have some color.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: sao123
I love litescribe... every time i burn a DVD I use it to burn a label. Many people have been impressed by the professional look it offers them over paper labels. Plus it wont ever peel away.

I just wish the process would work faster, and maybe eventually, they will have some color.

LiveScribe... not LightScribe. The first time I heard about this I thought the op typo'd it in that thread too. LiveScribe is just some lame note taking thing. Who the fuck takes notes?

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: Izusaga
The depressing thing is I can remember thinking something exactly like this would make a great product back in highschool, but at the time technology wouldn't support it and over the years I just forgot about it.

Wish I had written down all of those ideas, I'm sure at least one of them is a viable product today and I'd be making millions off it.

One of the first things you learn about entrepreneurship is that ideas are essentially worthless. What makes people rich is having the ability and resources to execute these ideas and turn them into something actually useful, which is infinitely harder than just sitting around thinking stuff up.

In the popular mindset, all you need is 1 brilliant idea and then everything falls into place and you become stinking rich, whereas if you look at the real world, you'll see most "brilliant ideas" were either obvious or shared by a large group of people. The people that actually got rich had the technical ability and/or business acumen to bring them to life.

So don't worry, you didn't lose anything because you didn't have anything to begin with.

IIRC this was a project assigned to a business tech class every year at my high school.

You were given a rough concept for a digital pen, had to create an image/prototype and a business plan for selling it.

 

[dakels]

Originally posted by: Izusaga
The depressing thing is I can remember thinking something exactly like this would make a great product back in highschool, but at the time technology wouldn't support it and over the years I just forgot about it.

Wish I had written down all of those ideas, I'm sure at least one of them is a viable product today and I'd be making millions off it.

Everyone has a great idea. Very few successfully bring it to fruition.

 

[BoomerD]

Good idea. I can see that being handy for school use, or as mentioned above, in a medical setting. Hell, being able to capture any kind of note or scribble would be handy for many industries as well. Imagine an architect using one to capture rough sketches...

I don't think the thing is worth the prices they have listed on their website though.

Of course, I don't think the iPod type devices or most cell phones are worth the prices they get either...

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: sao123
I love litescribe... every time i burn a DVD I use it to burn a label. Many people have been impressed by the professional look it offers them over paper labels. Plus it wont ever peel away.

I just wish the process would work faster, and maybe eventually, they will have some color.

LiveScribe... not LightScribe. The first time I heard about this I thought the op typo'd it in that thread too. LiveScribe is just some lame note taking thing. Who the fuck takes notes?

LOL

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: sao123
I love litescribe... every time i burn a DVD I use it to burn a label. Many people have been impressed by the professional look it offers them over paper labels. Plus it wont ever peel away.

I just wish the process would work faster, and maybe eventually, they will have some color.

LiveScribe... not LightScribe. The first time I heard about this I thought the op typo'd it in that thread too. LiveScribe is just some lame note taking thing. Who the fuck takes notes?

apparently not me...

 

[TallBill]

I guess it would be useful for a few things, but I would have no use for one.

 

[ivan2]

hmm u got me interested.

 

[Spineshank]

Pretty cool, however at this point and time i would have no use for it.

 

[Vehemence]

That would have been awesome if I had it like 8 years ago

 

[effowe]

Many of my college courses used a technology like this. I was a CS major, so most of my classes I could watch online. It would play back the video, and next to it you could see all the notes that were written on the whiteboard. The whiteboard had sensors on both sides, and the teachers used special markers to write. The sensors would pick up where the marker was writing on the board and it translated it to notes during playback. Pretty damn cool tech.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: effowe
Many of my college courses used a technology like this. I was a CS major, so most of my classes I could watch online. It would play back the video, and next to it you could see all the notes that were written on the whiteboard. The whiteboard had sensors on both sides, and the teachers used special markers to write. The sensors would pick up where the marker was writing on the board and it translated it to notes during playback. Pretty damn cool tech.

Smartboards. Oldskool.

 

[clamum]

I've heard about this before, looks kind of neat. I gather requirements for software too but it's mainly over email or sometimes the phone.

 

[bobert]

It seems the desktop software is a little behind. Still lacking some basic exporting capabilities for the notes and audio.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: bobert
It seems the desktop software is a little behind. Still lacking some basic exporting capabilities for the notes and audio.

Like what? We've been exporting notes and audio just fine?