I like technology, but I’m not one of those people who runs screaming for my nearest electronics shop when the newest gadget comes out. For instance, I like to keep my phone and mp3 player separate. I don’t know what I’d use an iPad for. The gadget (if you could call it that) in my house that excites me the most is our Bialetti coffee pot.

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But the LiveScribe is different. LiveScribe is giving me intense, unrivalled feelings of *WANT*.

It has a pen with embedded digital recorder and computer which, when used with special paper, records what it’s writing for later upload, and syncs those notes with what’s been recorded. For writers, especially those w

ho do a significant amount of interviewing, this could change the world. It’s so much easier to engage in a conversation if you’re not frantically scribbling at the same time, hence why dictaphones became popular. But the joy of these is that it’s nice and discreet, not a box sitting on the table and intimidating your subject. And for someone like me who struggles sometimes to decipher their own scrawl, it would save a lot of time and confused squinting.

Not to mention that every time I used it, I’d feel like I was in James Bond or Get Smart.

You might wonder what rock I’ve been living under, given that according to Wikipedia this product has existed since 2005. In my defence, I live in New Zealand, and unless they’re

from a huge corporation, we often don’t hear about things until long after they’re old news. Even in this world of instant information.

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