Now They've Thought of Everything!

Do any of you allow ads on your blogs? I've been doing it for awhile now, and while I've never had enough of a readership to actually reap any profits from it, I have gained something valuable.

I was editing a post one day, when I clicked on one of the ads. It was for something called a Pulse Pen by Livescribe. They had a little video of a group of people at a business meeting with the boss from Hell, barking orders in staccato and dashing back out of the room saying, "You got that?"

It's obvious from the horrified looks on everyone's faces that, no, they hadn't "gotten that." Who could possibly keep up?

Then we see the calm, collected fellow in the corner with his Livescribe pen -- a pen that not only records audio of everything that's being said, but also stores the notes you've written in a .jpg format that you can upload to your computer and share with others.

And what I consider it's BEST feature: If you're reading along in your notes and you can't make out what you've written or you missed something, all you have to do is tap the pen on the word in your notebook and the audio that was being recorded when you wrote that word instantly plays back.

It's a special notebook -- I call it the Magic Pad -- with tools at the bottom of the page that when tapped, allow you to start or stop recording, bookmark an important place in the notes, jump forward, jump back, adjust volume -- everything. It's just....well, it's amazing.

So I bought myself one. I never learned shorthand and have always had a problem keeping up when taking notes. It's the best thing I've ever bought. It does exactly what they promise it will do, and it's easy to use. I wrote an article with my new pen this weekend, and it made my life so much easier, I was dumbfounded.

No, there's no user's manual an inch thick that one must learn in order to use their pen. Just a tiny little booklet that helps you set up your pen. Then you download the Livescribe software from their site and you're ready to work.

Folks, this stuff is genius. And I'm so grateful to have found it, I'm treating them to this little free ad of my own. Be sure to tell them you heard it here.

www.livescribe.com