Over the last year, Livescribe has promoted its digital “smart” pen as an educational tool not just for capturing and recording class notes, but also sharing these notes online in a technique known as “pencasting.” Now, the latest version of the company’s smart pen, called the Echo, adds more digital storage capability, and new software coming this fall will enable the pen to stream all notes taken live, in real time, to a computer—turning special dotted paper into an inexpensive digital tablet.

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