chiqtech.com takes a look at how Livescribe is steering technology from virtual PC applications to real, solid, physical applications directly into your own hands.

The Livescribe Pulse digital pen features a removable ink cartridge, a microphone for audio recording, a speaker for playback, a small OLED displa and an internal computer chip that captures hand-written notes and drawings.

Press the “record” button of the Livescribe Pulse digital pen to capture the audio during a class lecture or business meeting—then use the pen to write real notes on paper with actual ink and digital ink, simultaneously!

The wonder of the Livescribe Pulse digital pen that the audio capture and written notes are synchronized.

Utilizing a feature called, “Paper Replay”, you just have to tap part of your notes, and the Livescribe pen will replay the audio recorded while you were writing what you tapped on.

The Livescribe Pulse digital pen is a model of micro-electronic intelligence, a computer embedded in a pen-sized package.

The Livescribe Pulse digital pen comes part of the Livescribe paper-based computing platform that includes a special note dot paper, which uses a patented dot-positioning system to track and record the smartpen’s movement on the paper. The dot paper also features sound-control buttons printed on the bottom (play, pause, forward, reverse, et cetera) that actually work when you click on them with the pen.

Once you’ve imported everything onto your PC, you can search for the audio file using keywords or phrases you scribbled in your notes.

Depending on the storage capacity, the Livescribe Pulse digital pen costs $150 (for the 1 gigabyte model) or $200 (for the 2 gigabytes model). The 1 gigabyte Livescribe Pulse digital pen has been tested to hold about 100 hours of audio recording, this varies on the selected audio quality.