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Check out how to build a loft for your college dorm room or any room! This pencast is courtesy of Michael Snively, a Pulse smartpen expert and Livescribe Campus Rep at MIT.
For more great pencasts, check out the Livescribe community. If you have a pencast you’d like us to feature, please e-mail klee @ livescribe.com!
MyScript for Livescribe is a transcription software for Livescribe Desktop that allows users to convert their handwritten notes into digital English (United States) text. For all current MyScript for Livescribe users, you can now download 25 more languages for free!
How does it work? Just download one of the 25 languages (click on the “Get more languages” for Windows or Mac) to get handwriting recognition in the newly-added language.
Download a 30-day free trial of MyScript for Livescribe in addition to any of the new 25 language packs listed below from Vision Objects.
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Danish
Dutch
English (Canada)
English (UK)
English (USA) included by default
Finnish
French (Canada)
French (France)
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain)
Swedish
Turkish
Former Livescribe campus rep and Pulse marketer extraordinaire Adam Burke was featured on Towson University’s website!
Adam’s social media expertise also helped make Livescribe a Twitter hit. “The Twitter audience consists of very tech-savvy professionals with lots of questions about future applications and development, so I market the pen differently,” said Adam. “I increased the follower count from about 100 to more than 1,500.” Livescribe now has almost doubled that number with nearly 3,000 Twitter followers!
Check out Adam’s interview on the Towson University website.
This week, the Wall Street Journal has named Livescribe a runner-up in the Consumer Electronics category in this year’s Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards.
The Wall Street Journal received over 500 entries. Livescribe is a runner-up alongside Hewlett Packard and Motorola. Check out today’s Wall Street Journal issue or WSJ.com/Reports to see more.
We’re honored! Thanks, WSJ!
For college students, the first couple of weeks in school can mean a bunch of things: moving in, adding/dropping classes, buying textbooks, catching up with friends,etc.
But at Cornell University, we teamed up with The Cornell Store, the main on-campus bookstore, to give away 200 Pulse smartpens to Cornell students, faculty and staff during the first two weeks of school.
On Thursday, September 3rd - we came, we saw, we gave away all 200 Pulse smartpens to Cornell. The Cornell Store even had a popcorn machine.
Students had a chance to spin our prize wheel to win a smartpen on the spot and by 2:45pm, we ran out of all our Pulse smartpens (save 10 that we kept for the end-of-the-day raffle) but the line of people continued to stretch and wind through the back of the store. I actually overheard a couple engineering students who were calculating their probability to win a Pulse smartpen through the raffle.
Both Sherina, my partner in crime, and I had a great time. I loved how people reacted when they spun on the “FREE PULSE SMARTPEN” slice on the prize wheel; it reminded me of the Price is Right or Wheel of Fortune. I was also happy to hear from one student how she was having a crappy day yesterday, but winning a Pulse smartpen was exactly what she needed to make it all better.
A big thank you goes to: the Cornell students who took time out of their busy schedule to give smartpen demos to students throughout the day, Leeann and Joan at The Cornell Store who made this event possible, and of course, to everyone who showed up to the event.
Check out our pictures of our big giveaway at Cornell on our Facebook photo album.
200 Pulse smartpens. Stacked and ready to go.
The line weaving throughout The Cornell Store for a chance to win a Pulse smartpen.
Two lucky winners and proud Pulse smartpen owners
A little background history: Cornell University made the most marks, largely due to the Class of 2013, in Livescribe’s Make Your Mark contest on Facebook, beating out over 1,000 other colleges across the nation to win the big giveaway event. Over 3,000 marks were made in total!
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 1, 2009 – This week, Livescribe Inc. (www.livescribe.com) will be giving away 200 Pulse smartpens to Cornell University, the winning college of their “Map Your College” Facebook contest. Livescribe will be giving the prizes away at the Cornell University Bookstore in Ithaca, NY from 9 a.m. EST to 5 p.m. EST on Thursday, September 3, 2009.
Livescribe’s “Map Your College” Facebook contest encouraged incoming college freshmen to pinpoint their chosen colleges on the interactive Livescribe College map. Entrants were then asked to submit a scholarship entry on how they will “make their mark” and leave a lasting impact on their communities and peers, in 160 characters or less.
Cornell University had over 400 entries, beating the contest’s runner-up, University of Texas at Austin for the win. Cornell University’s class of 2013 was instrumental in this win, placing hundreds of marks on the map which led to an exciting and unexpected head-to-head race to first place.
Beyond the sheer number of entries, the Class of 2013 also showed an incredible amount of ambition and promise in their scholarship entries. Some Cornell University entries included:
Livescribe’s big giveaway of 200 Pulse smartpens is open to Cornell University students, faculty and staff with two ways to win: First, from Friday, August 21 to Monday, August 31, participants were invited to fill out an entry form at The Cornell Store. 10 winners were selected each day to win a Pulse smartpen.
On Thursday, September 3 from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST, participants can take a spin on the prize wheel at The Cornell Store to win a Pulse smartpen on the spot. The giveaway is limited to one Pulse smartpen per person.
Gizmodo recently asked readers to send their most incredible exploding/leaking pen stories, and Gizmodo readers chose their winner of a Pulse 2GB Pro-Pack!
Check out contest winner David S.’s tale– he’s a teacher who stopped a bank robbery with a pen in his shirt pocket. Thanks to our friends at Gizmodo for hosting this contest!
“As a teacher, I have a tendency to carry around a red pen for correcting papers on a very regular basis - most frequently in my front shirt pocket. One afternoon as I was depositing my paycheck inside my local bank, two guys wearing ski masks burst into the bank, waving guns and ordering us all to the ground. I’m not one to take much crap, nor am I a small guy, so I called out to the guys to see if we could work something out.
“Apparently, it startled one of them pretty badly (I suspect they were tripping on something) and he pulled the trigger on the gun. Thankfully, it was pointing - more or less - up, but taking advantage of the situation, I doubled over and collapsed, simultaneously punching myself in the chest where the pen was. As I hoped, it broke, spilling red ink all over my white shirt.
“The would-be robbers, already tripping on something, absolutely flipped out - apparently, killing someone wasn’t something they had planned on doing. They tore out of the bank like bats out of hell, where there were thankfully, several police cars just pulling up, as one of the tellers had hit the silent alarm. Needless to say, I walked away from the incident with merely a slight bruise, and short one red pen.”
Reposted from Gizmodo.
