For many of us, our days are filled with scribbling notes on scrap pieces of paper, or a billion little yellow post-it notes. This ´system´ works fine for the occasional thought, but when you need to concentrate on something other than recording yours´ or another persons ideas, it´s time for some serious real time help. Tape recorders are the mainstay for recording lectures, interviews, or one´s epiphanies. The only problem is that those little tapes only last so long before they have to be flipped over, or switched altogether.

Flash memory based recording devices have been available for some time to take up the slack of their taped brethren thankfully. The digital recordings offer higher quality for the most part, easy indexing, and instant erasure. One such entry is the Samsung Voice Pen. About the size of a large cigarette lighter, the SVR-S820 offers approx. 233min recording on SP, and 502min recording on LP settings.