MOLESKINE SMART WRITING SET $199.99
Take notes by hand, save them digitally
Sometimes nothing beats the feeling of putting pen to paper — even if you want the results to end up in digital form.
The Moleskine smart-writing set lets you take notes and draw pictures in one of its distinctive journals as your work syncs in real time to a smartphone or tablet.
The mobile app can transcribe handwritten words into digital text in 15 languages.
PC Magazine named the Moleskine smart notebook its Editors' Choice for digital note-taking devices, praising it as "an impressive note-taking solution."
At first glance, the notebook looks just like any other Moleskine with its elastic strap enclosure.
But flip it open, and a dotted grid on the technology-embedded pages pairs the notebook with an infrared camera-enabled smart pen. The companion app lets you adjust stroke thickness or change the ink color on the fly.
The micro USB-powered pen's onboard memory can store as many as 1,000 pages if you happen to be away from your phone or tablet (like that would ever happen).
The one knock: It's relatively expensive.