I know a few people who swear by the Livescribe smartpen. The device stores digital copies of handwritten notes and can record audio notes at the same time. I have never used the pen myself, but the problem for me I think would be that I have horrible handwriting. I would end up with printed notes I can’t read and digital notes I can’t read at the same time.

Livescribe has announced a new feature for its smartpen called Pencasts. The feature allows anyone using the smartpen to share notes digitally along with drawings, and conversations via websites, podcasts and even tweets.

The user can embed a pencast by finding the pencast on the My Livescribe page and clicking the embed this file button, which produces the HTML that needs to be copied and pasted to embed the pencast. The Livescribe pen sells for $149.95 with 1GB of storage and $199.95 for 2GB of storage.

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