In a marketplace thick with competition, any webcam that has a hope of making an impact has to not only do the basic video and still functions to the best of today’s technological standard, but add in new features that might make you rethink how to use your camera. That seems to be the idea behind the Creative Live! Cam Optia AF, a 2.0 megapixel webcam that builds some unexpected features – like motion tracking and time lapse video – in the standard package. Do those secondary options make this camera worth your purchase? Today, we’re going to find out.
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Note taking has one big problem: whether you take notes by writing with a pen or typing on a keyboard, you’re forced to strike an uneasy balance between detail and speed so that you don’t miss anything but still have a reliable record that you can use hours or days after the initial presentation. Well, what if you had all of the context you needed thanks to a digital pen system that combined your written notes with a recording of the speaker talking? That would probably help eliminate a lot of the worries about accuracy or speed, leaving you to clarify the occasional point with some scrawl.
That’s the idea behind
Livescribe’s new Pulse Smartpen system: it combines a digital pen with special paper that synchronizes your writing with the audio recorded by its built-in microphone, allowing you to download the result to your computer via USB and play it back while reading your notes through the pen’s core software. Though the pen isn’t cheap – MSRP is $149 for the 1 GB model and $199 for the 2GB model – Livescribe has eliminated one major obstacle to adoption: they’ve not only stated that their special paper will be comparable in cost to standard notebook paper, but will be offering a free template for use with laser printers starting in April.
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