Digital Pens

"A pen that's more than a pen, not only can it record your every move, it can play piano too." Review details: Single Test.   → Test results

"Save your scribbles." Review details: Single Test.   → Test results

"At first glance, the Pulse looks like one of those horrible old scanning-pen affairs. it's not. It's much more interesting. ..." Review details: Single Test   → Test results

"It's not platinum-plated, doesn't run on fountain ink and definitely won't be seen sealing any international peace treaties, but that doesn't mean the Livescribe Pulse isn't the most important pen you'll ever use. Read on for our full Livescribe Pulse review and see how the humble biro has been given a 21st century reboot." Review details: Single Test.   → Test results

"We may sit in meetings tapping away at our netbooks these days, but for many people a keyboard just can't match the speed and flexibility of pen and paper for note taking. Livescribe's Pulse Smartpen is a novel solution, merging pen and Dictaphone with glorious efficiency." Review details: Single Test. One note recording peripheral was reviewed and rated on features and design, performance, and value.   → Test results

"Will this let you ditch the laptop for meetings?" Review details: Single Test   → Test results

"This device is designed to work in much the same way as a graphics tablet but without the need for a large sensor pad cluttering up your workspace. The E-pens works by attaching a sensor to the top of a sheet of plain A4 paper and then writing or drawing on the paper as normal; the results then appear on screen." Review details: Single Test   → Test results

"We recently looked at the ePens Mobile Notes, a digital pen that did away with 'digital paper', a significant advance over older devices like Logitech's io. Today, however, we're looking at the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, which has reanimated this 'feature' as it works only with LiveScribe Dot paper." Review details: Single Test   → Test results

"Digitising handwritten notes is made easier with e-Pens Mobile Notes by simply recording what you write on normal paper. Getting started is simple, with the sensor recording your pen strokes. Unfortunately it doesn't work in Mac or Linux." Review details: Single Test   → Test results

"Removing the time-consuming hassle of converting written notes to digital documents, E-pens Mobile Notes picks up up to 50 pages of pen strokes with its receiver before importing to computer and converting with optical character recognition." Review details: Single Test   → Test results

"The first hurdle in using e-pens Mobile Notes is that it requires Internet Explorer, immediately excluding around 46 percent of PC Advisor readers. If this is acceptable, then the package includes an e-pen with pen and stylus inputs and a base unit attaching to your PC." Review details: Single Test. One e-pen was reviewed and rated on build quality, features and value.   → Test results

"Using ultrasound and infra-red to track its passage across a page as you write or draw, Electrobox's Minotes is one of a group of pen-based text-to-digital devices. OCR and text conversion software round out the package." Review details: Single Test   → Test results