I have something similar... it's called Paperium (http://paperium.com/ http://paperium.com/) and it's very similar to Livescribe. It uses the same type of paper

I have something similar... it's called Paperium (http://paperium.com/ http://paperium.com/) and it's very similar to Livescribe. It uses the same type of paper (probably not the exact pattern) and I think all these pens with camera + special dotted paper are using the same licensed tech from Hitachi. Paperium also has special areas where you can point with a pen and send stuff over bluetooth over to your computer. Bluetooth connectivity was the reason why I didn't consider other USB pens (Livescribe seems to be USB). It gives you feedback as a series of short vibrations. Once it's on your computer, you can do all kinds of things including change the thickness, change the level of smoothing of the lines, export to Illustrator etc. This is all easy since the pen captures the vector data. I've also started using Evernote which is this cool app that allows you to archive and search stuff within notes, pictures etc. It works really, really well. Even though I have a writing style of an old doctor, it recognizes my writing just fine. The audio features of Livescribe don't appeal to me much but whatever works for you.. Paperium has solved my throwaway paper napkin doodlings problem quite nicely. I used to take a pic of my sketches/explanations with my phone and send it around that way but this is so much better. Can't recommend this type of tech enough!