Review: The Moleskine Smart Writing Set turns written words into digital data

While many of us spend our days with our fingers on the keyboard and our eyes on the display, some people still prefer a more old-fashioned means of idea generating and communicating: paper and pen. This is why companies such as Moleskine, which sells what can be described as high-end notebooks, have hit a successful niche.

As a compromise between yesterday's and today's writing technologies, Moleskine recently introduced its Smart Writing Set, which includes the Pen+, a version of the Neo Smartpen N2, and a notebook designed to be used with the Pen+ (and which, according to Moleskine's PR, "is purposefully designed with extended rounded edges to look like a tablet"). The Pen+ works with a mobile app to record everything you write in the notebook in digital format. It currently sells for $199 (vendor price).

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