Have you ever wanted a pen that could play the piano, solve math problems, record a lecture, speak Spanish, and translate your handwriting into type? No? Well, you do now.

It’s called the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, and it contains an audio recorder and a tiny infrared camera that records everything the pen writes. Say you are in a meeting, taking notes on Livescribe’s special lined paper, which can be printed from the company’s free downloadable software.

A translation tool, which will allow users to write a word in English and get a translation in Spanish, should be available in mid-2009. Not enough?

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