Livescribe Honored with Prestigious
DEMOgod Award at DEMO 08

CEO and Founder Jim Marggraff makes a splash
with the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen

OAKLAND, Calif. -- February 15, 2008 - Livescribe Inc. (www.livescribe.com) today announced that founder and chief executive officer Jim Marggraff was presented with the DEMOgod award at the DEMO 08 Conference. The much coveted DEMOgod award is given to an elite group of presenters that demonstrate their product or service with style, passion and clarity in a six-minute on-stage live presentation in front of peers, press, analysts and venture capitalists.

Hundreds of companies were screened by DEMO executive producer Chris Shipley and a panel of industry experts to narrow this year’s list of presenters to 77 companies. Of those 77 companies, only 10 were selected as DEMOgod winners. To view Livescribe’s winning demonstration click here.

“DEMO gives every company, whether large or small, an equal opportunity to demonstrate its product or service. It has always been a forum where companies can’t hide behind PowerPoint presentations or canned demonstrations. Instead, presenters must rely on refined presentation skills in order to effectively showcase their technologies,” said Shipley. “Jim Marggraff and Livescribe were able to deliver an informative, powerful and entertaining demonstration that resonated with the audience. Livescribe has created more than just a nifty gadget. It has built a transformative platform that will change the way people capture, access and share information.”

While at DEMO, Livescribe introduced a new category of consumer electronics with its Pulse smartpen, as well as announced its open platform for developers.

“DEMO has a long reputation for spotlighting the best and most promising technology,” said Marggraff. “We are honored to be included not only as a presenter but also as a DEMOgod winner. We’ve spent years developing the Pulse platform, and this award serves as an amazing tribute to Livescribe and the team supporting it. Livescribe is evolving the act of writing from annotation-by-hand to the capture of ideas and meaning with animated ink and synchronized audio. Spoken and written information may now be accessed and shared in the digital world forever.”

Livescribe’s Pulse smartpen is a computer within a pen that captures handwriting and simultaneously records audio and synchronizes it to the writing. Users can simply tap on their notes to replay what was recorded from the exact moment they were writing. Further, Pulse is a general purpose computer with rich I/O capabilities and a Java development environment that enables a wide range of applications.

For more information, visit www.livescribe.com or www.nevermissaword.com.

Product Availability

Livescribe's smartpen, dot paper and software applications will be available for purchase online in Q1 2008 by U.S. residents. The smartpen costs less than $200 and can store more than 100 hours of audio. Visit www.livescribe.com to preorder a smartpen before December 31, 2007 to receive free shipping and handling.

About Livescribe, Inc.

Located in Oakland, Calif., Livescribe has developed a new low-cost mobile computing platform that connects the paper and digital worlds. Founded by Jim Marggraff, an entrepreneur and inventor of paper-based computing, including the LeapPad and Fly Pentop Computer, the company is designing innovative solutions that enhance personal productivity, learning, communication, and self expression for anyone who writes with pen and paper. For more information, visit Livescribe at www.livescribe.com. Livescribe has licensed Anoto technology for use in its smartpen and dot paper. Anoto AB, inventor of optical pen technology and dot pattern, holds intellectual property that allows quick and reliable transmission of handwritten text from paper to digital media.

About Anoto Group AB

Anoto Group is the world leader in Digital Pen and Paper technology and inventor of the first commercialized Digital Pen and Paper system allowing quick and reliable transmission of handwritten text from paper to digital media. Anoto works with a global network of partners focusing on user-friendly forms solutions for efficient capture, transmission and storing of data for a variety of business segments including healthcare, banking and finance, transportation and logistics, government and education. The Anoto Group has around 100 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Boston and Tokyo. Major shareholders are Norden Technology A/S, Robur and SEB. The Anoto share is traded on the Mid Cap of the OMX Nordic Exchanges in Stockholm under the ticker ANOT. For more information: www.anoto.com

 

Press Contact:
Carolyn Kravetz
A&R Edelmen for Livescribe
650.762.2800
carolyn.kravetz@ar-edelman.com