is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Livescribe’s basic sales pitch is simple, ...

When it comes to input devices, it’s always been tough to top the pocketable, affordable, utterly intuitive device known as the pen. Which is why so many folks continue to do their note-taking and ...

For all the things modern smartphones do very, very well, there’s one issue (OK, way more than one) they struggle with to this day: input. Touchscreens remain an inelegant wall standing between us and ...

Being a journalist is no easy task: constant deadlines, briefings, phone calls and meetings can leave time a pretty scarce resource, so anything that might cut-down and ease the note-taking process is ...

Livescribe broke new ground last year with the Sky WiFi pen that could transfer handwritten and audio notes straight to the cloud (well, to your Evernote account anyway), so that they'd be accessible ...

Here’s a consumer-electronics riddle: What’s the opposite of the iPad? Answer: the Livescribe Echo “smartpen.” It’s as if Livescribe and Apple both looked at the old pen-and-pad combination, but ...

I’m an easy person to spot at meetings. While everyone else is dutifully tapping away at their iPads, I’m still scribbling down notes with pen and paper like a 20th century chump. It’s not that I’m a ...