They are mostly used by companies, hospitals and government agencies for mobile staff like service technicians).

They are a brilliant and widely valued tool that enables field staff (say a service tech) to send data back to the office from a service report (via bluetooth from the pen to a mobile phone then through GPRS back to the office).

A digital pen & paper system can save many hours in retyping documents and allows invoicing, stock ordering etc to be done much faster.

The Livescribe system will bring the digital pen into the consumer mainstream.

Good luck to them on the launch!