techNOcool

If the new Pulse Smart Pen from Livescribe, a pen that records audio while you use it to take notes, really works as advertised, then all I can say is "Wow". It's not so much the recording of audio that gives it the wow factor - it also records video of what you are writing, so after class you can touch your pen to a spot on your notes and the pen will play back the part of the lecture that was happening when you took those notes.

But wait - there's more. You can also upload the audio and the video to your computer, so now you have your handwritten notes in electronic format.

The pen costs $200, which seems to me to be a pretty reasonable price if it really does what it claims to do. Plus, the ad for it is cute.