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In the NYC metro area? Catch Jim Marggraff, Livescribe CEO and inventor of the Pulse smartpen speaking on reinventing personal technology! Some details below.
IDEA Conference - Thursday, November 12
9:40 a.m. - Jim Marggraff, Livescribe
Terminal 5, 610 West 56th St, NYC
For more information, please visit www.idea2009.com.
Some big news today: We are now offering the Pulse smartpen in a new titanium color, available now in a 4GB and 2GB version. With 4GB of memory, you can record over 400 hours of class lectures, meetings, seminars, discussions – all from your Pulse smartpen. It packs plenty of room for applications coming soon for your smartpen. Stay tuned! Check them out here.
The new 4GB black Pro Pack is a complete solution for professionals. For $249.95, you save $35 with this Pro Pack exclusively from Livescribe. It’s bundled with the new black 4GB Pulse smartpen, starter notebook, sleek new Pro Charging Cradle, premium leather case, and MyScript for Livescribe handwriting–to–text transcription software. Right now, it’s available at Livescribe.com
There’s also a new way to charge your Pulse smartpen. The Pro Charging Cradle has a stylish ink–well design and plugs into a wall outlet for fast, efficient charging. Or, you can connect and sync it with the USB cable to your computer.
Looking to buy a Pulse smartpen in the new titanium color? You can find it at several new retail outlets, including Best Buy, select Apple stores, and Apple.com. Starting in late November, the Pulse smartpen will be available at Staples nationwide. Find a store near you!
For pictures and a downloadable demo video of the Pulse smartpen, you can visit our company press release.
Livescribe today announced the winners of the “Make Your Mark” contest on Facebook, which encouraged students to share in 140 characters or less how they were going to make a difference at their college.
Livescribe received over 3,000 entries from students at 1,000 different universities across the country and will award a total of $10,000 in scholarships and Pulse smartpens to 18 college students who best demonstrated creativity, originality and inspiration in their written entries.
Hannah Claire Nicole Halcomb of Eastern Kentucky University won $1,500 and a Pulse smartpen as the grand prize winner for her following entry: “I am a 19 year old raising a baby and going to school full time. I want to show others in my situation that it is possible to graduate on time from a university with a child.” In addition, 15 first-prize winners to date have been awarded $500 in scholarship funds, and each received a Pulse smartpen.
Livescribe’s confirmed Make Your Mark scholarship winners are:
GRAND PRIZE WINNER:
Hannah Claire Nicole Halcomb from Richmond, Ky. (attending Eastern Kentucky University)
FIRST PRIZE WINNERS:
Kathleen Anders, Washington DC (attending Georgetown University)
Sean Clark, Reno, Nev. (attending UN Reno)
Emmanuel Coloma, Berkeley, Calif. (attending UC Berkeley)
Lisa Dewart, Toledo, Ohio (attending MIT)
Marvinlette Dorsey, Vacherie, La. (attending Xavier University of Louisiana)
Alyssa Dotson, Duncanville, Texas (attending UT Austin)
Kathleen Fell, Stillwater, Okla. (attending Oklahoma State University)
K. Tavane Griffith, Gainesville, Fla. (attending Santa Fe College)
Erin Judge, Austin, Texas (attending UT Austin)
Reeca Mitchell, Memphis, Tenn. (attending Tennessee State University)
Ashley Pietzsch, Austin, Texas (attending UT Austin)
Rachel Pollack, Minneapolis, Minn. (attending UM Twin Cities)
Christa Pluff, Pittsburgh, Pa. (attending Georgetown University)
Waytao Shing, Austin, Texas (attending UT Austin)
Heather Stevens, Salado, Texas (attending UT Arlington)
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!
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.
This week, the 2 GB Pulse smartpen is Apple’s #1 staff pick at the Apple.com store.
Check us out, and a big thank you to Apple!
For this month’s Popular Mechanics issue, Science and Technology reporter (and Pulse fan) Michael Belfiore tried a different approach in interviewing Tom Mueller from Space Exploration Technologies: A pencast!
That’s right, Michael’s online article included a pencast of Mueller explaining the SpaceX engine his team designed, and how they did it!
A longtime fan of pencasts, Michael wants to know: Should Popular Mechanics include more pencasts in their stories? Let the editors know by adding a comment to his story!
Earlier this week, we were excited to learn that Good Morning America picked the Pulse smartpen as a back-to-school must have. If you’re up early tomorrow morning on Saturday, August 22nd (7am PT or 8am ET) - tune in to Good Morning America and root us on!
Cornell University edged their way to a winning spot by making the most marks on Livescribe’s college map on Facebook. Overtaking University of Texas at Austin, Cornell’s Class of 2013 was instrumental in this exciting jump to the #1 spot!
If you’re a Cornell student, faculty, or staff member, you can enter to win a Pulse smartpen on campus. Here’s how:
From Friday, August 21st until Monday, August 31st, fill out an entry form at The Cornell Store. We’ll be choosing 10 Pulse winners a day!
On September 3, head to The Cornell Store and spin the prize wheel to win a Pulse smartpen on the spot!
RSVP for the big giveaway event at Cornell on Facebook.
*Entries are limited to one per day. Limit of one Pulse smartpen per person.
