From sketch artists, to researchers, students, and business professionals, everyone has a different idea of when, where and how they’d use the Livescribe smartpen. So what’s yours? Write us back by submitting a comment below. We’ll pick our favorite response on January 4, 2008 and send you a smartpen for free when we start shipping the product.

In the meantime - check out what our group friends are saying on Facebook, and have a look at what other blogs are saying:

Livescribe - Paradigm Shifting User Research Technology?

“While the [Livescribe] was not designed for user research applications, consider how it might be applied:

• During user interviews, the researcher can reference what he or she writes or sketches directly back to the interviewees words for clarity and idea expansion.
• In usability testing the facilitator can reference recorded comments directly back to a discussion guide document to quickly drill-down to supporting quotes.
• For ethnographic observations informant conversations and environmental sounds can be unobtrusively recorded while taking notes.”

Ethnography: Saved by Technology?

“Enter the [smartpen] from [Livescribe]. The [smartpen] allows us to take notes even as we capture a taped version of what is said, and then to interpolate between them as need be. The [smartpen] gives us both the topographical map and the treasure map.”

Speaking of Transcription

“Unfortunately, at least some of that time you really do need an accurate transcription, particularly of complex ideas that are new to you and so are hard to summarize. That’s where being able to replay just that portion of the lecture with Livescribe would be incredibly useful.”

Pen Cures Restless Mind Syndrome, Reveals Office Secrets

“For business purposes, the uses are endless. The pen can attend those mindless weekly traffic meetings on your behalf.”

[Smartpen] from [Livescribe]

“This would have been a dream device for me when I was a student. I was always sloppy with my notes and would often spend hours trying to figure out why I circled three times “War/zoo analogy”. Seemed important at the time, but when it came time to study, I’d have to put on my Sherlock Holmes hat and try to figure out what the heck it meant. With this, I could double click, rewind a few minutes and just hear it again.”

Livescribe Smartpen

“I am the old fashion type who likes to take notes by hand rather than type through a lecture. (As a former radio journalist, I also like to have my tape recorder going to catch those important quotes!)”