Sourcenext Brings the "Livescribe wifi smartpen" to Japan

On Sale May 1st, 2013

http://www.sourcenext.com/product/pc/oth/pc_oth_000897/

 

SOURCENEXT Corporation (Headquarters: Toranomon 33 Mori Building 6F, 3-8-21, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo;CEO and President: Noriyuki Matsuda) announced today that it has formed a partnership with Livescribe, Inc. (Headquarters: California, USA), and as the first product from its partnership, it plans to release the "Livescribe wifi smartpen." It is the first digital pen to integrate WiFi technology and cloud services. The "Livescribe wifi smartpen" digitizes everything consumers write and hear and automatically sends it to their personal Evernote accounts, where it is securely stored and readily available to search, play back, organize and share. Perfect for today’s on-the-go world, everyone from busy executives to students can conveniently access their written notes and recorded audio directly from paper, as well as on all the tablets, smartphones and computers they use. Starting Tuesday, April 23, reservations for the product will be started at SOURCENEXT’s online stores (Retail Price: Open price).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[What is the "Livescribe wifi smartpen"?]

With the "Livescribe wifi smartpen" people don’t have to choose between writing on paper and writing on a tablet –they can have the best of both worlds. It is an ideal companion to an iPad or Android tablet. Together they offer the ease, flexibility and precision of writing on paper with the benefits of saving, searching, replaying and sharing on a tablet.

The "Livescribe wifi smartpen" captures everything consumers write and hear. To playback the audio, they simply tap their handwritten notes with their smartpen and the audio will replay from that exact moment in time. Consumers can also playback the audio from their computer, tablet and smartphone using Evernote. The "Livescribe 2GB wifi smartpen" stores around 200 hours of audio and approximately 20,000 pages of written notes.

Livescribe smartpens have received many awards, including the 2012 "Editor’s Choice Award" from Laptop Magazine (USA), along with many more prestigious awards and accolades.

 

[Works with Evernote]

Any content created and captured with the "Livescribe wifi smartpen" wirelessly syncs to Evernote as a new searchable and shareable note. Once in Evernote, customers can easily play back their handwritten notes and synchronized audio, called "pencasts," through the web-based Livescribe Player. Customers can start at the beginning of a "pencast," or jump directly to a specific point in time just by clicking on a specific word or portion of a drawing.

 

 

A Powerful Tool in Various Scenarios

In addition to reviewing "pencasts" on their computers and mobile devices, consumers can also:

— Search their Livescribe handwritten notes using Evernote’s OCR feature as well as the tags, title and keyword features in Evernote;

— Share individual notes, including "pencasts" publically or privately with colleagues and peers via link, email, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Entire notebooks can also be shared for easy collaboration;

— Organize their notes and "pencasts" alongside other related content including documents, presentations, photos, videos and web pages

 

■Comes with a 500 MB Additional Upload Quota for "Evernote"

The "Livescribe wifi smartpen" works with both Evernote (free) and Evernote Premium and can be linked to new or existing Evernote accounts. The "Livescribe wifi smartpen" includes an additional 500MB of monthly upload capacity (up to 70 hours of recording time) for content created with the smartpen.

 

 

[About Livescribe]

Livescribe brings notes, words and ideas to life. Livescribe smartpens make it easy to connect paper and pen to the digital world and fundamentally change the way people capture, access and share what they write, draw and hear.

Livescribe’s new wireless smartpen, together with cloud services make it simple to save, find and playback important meetings, lectures and memories anytime, anywhere on nearly any tablet, smartphone and computer. www.livescribe.com.

 

"We have long wished to have our smartpens available in Japan and are pleased to do so with such an established partner like Sourcenext. We are dedicated to supporting this market," said Gilles Bouchard, Livescribe chairman and CEO. "The "Livescribe wifi smartpen" is an incredibly simple, but powerful tool. Consumers can easily capture important ideas, presentations and conversations in the most natural way, on paper, and they automatically appear right where they want them - on their mobile devices and personal computers through Evernote."

 

 

 

 

[About Anoto Group AB]

Anoto is the world leading company behind the unique technology for digital pen and paper, which enables fast and reliable transmission of handwritten text into a digital format. Anoto operates through a global partner network that focuses on user-friendly forms solutions for efficient capture, transmission and storage of data within different business segments, e.g. healthcare, bank and finance, transport and logistics and education. The Anoto Group is headquartered in Lund, Sweden, with offices in Boston and Tokyo. Anoto traded on the Small Cap list of OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm under the ticker ANOT. www.anoto.com.

 

 

 

Summary of Livescribe 2GB wifi smartpen

 

■Product Name:                        Livescribe 2GB wifi smartpen

■Retail Price:                             Open Price

■Release Date:                         May 31^st 2013

                                                       Presale reservations to start from April 23, 2013

■Description:                             Smartpen, which digitally captures handwriting and audio and syncs the information with Evernote

■Developed by:                          Livescribe, Inc.

■Distributed by:                        SOURCENEXT Corporation

■Product Info :        http://www.sourcenext.com/product/pc/oth/pc_oth_000897/

 

 

 

System Requirements for Livescribe 2GB wifi smartpen

 

The following environment is required for using the "Livescribe wifi smartpen":

-     Livescribe dot paper (an exclusive note which can be downloaded and printed as a PDF file)

-     USB port (for charging internal battery)

 

For uploading and using with Evernote, the following will be required.

-     Broadband internet connection

-     2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Network (802.11 b/g/n)

-     A web browser supporting HTML5

 

 

 

                  Copyright Information

 

■Please place the following copyright information in the case of using images of the product in any articles.

©2013 Livescribe, Inc.

 

 

 

Contact for Press-related Inquiries Regarding this Product

 

■ Brand Management Representative: Yuka Yaginuma (SOURCENEXT Corporation, Brand Mgmt. Team)

■ Contact:TEL 050-5533-4602                  FAX 03-6430-6405                     EMAIL pr@sourcenext.com

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