Do you want to convert your handwritten notes into a digital copy without scanning them? The Livescribe Echo Smartpen might be the perfect gadget for you. The smart pen has a host of unique and useful features that will make jotting down notes an easy task. The Livescribe Echo Smartpen is one of the best note-taking tools in the market.

The Smart Pen is a bit unwieldy and feels like a white board marker, it is not a great device for people with small hands. The one comes with a standard ball point tip which feels a bit too slow, but you can always replace the tip with a roller-ball. The Echo smartpen has a high-speed infrared camera that captures everything that you write on the specially printed paper. Once you are done taking notes, you can connect the pen via the micro USB connector and download the digital version of your handwritten notes to the computer.

The Smartpen has a host of other cool features like a built-in microphone that records the audio of all the lectures so you can jot down the important points that you might have missed. Simply tap on a spot of the note and click `play' and you will hear what the speaker was saying during that time. The voice clarity is crisp and you can easily distinguish the voices of different people. The Smartpen comes in 4GB and 8Gb versions and can record 400-800 hours of audio respectively. The Smartpen is a must have for college students and journos.-- Sampurn Wire