Cardiris Pro 4 Mac
If you own your own business--heck, if you're in ANY business--you know how many business cards you can accumulate...and how easy it is to lose them. Not relishing the thought of all that networking going down the tubes? Rest easy...the I.R.I.S company has a solution for you in its Cardiris Pro 4 business card scanning software. It uses your existing flatbed scanner to grab all the info from up to ten cards and then lets you export the contacts to wherever you need them most. 217 countries are supported and the one click exporting to Excel is a nice touch if you're running it on your Mac. The best features? Duplicate management that helps you update existing contacts by picking and choosing which fields to alter and rear side supports that scan the front and back of cards at the same time. It's like magic...

www.irislink.com | Price: $99.00

LiveScribe Pulse Smart Pen
We remember college...vaguely...and we know we were always the nerd kids turned to when they "lost" their notes from class. If LiveScribe had invented the Pulse Smartpen back then, they would have had no excuse for not taking (we mean "losing") their notes. An on board infrared camera tracks everything you write while the built in microphone records sound that's easy to listen back to even when you're recording in a large lecture hall. Play back through the pen's own speaker or on the included headphones whose embedded microphones make far field recording even easier. How does it work, you ask? The secret is the dot paper. A tiny dot matrix allows the camera to track all your movements, and even has the controls to start and stop recording, bookmark notes, and change volume, and while notebooks and journals are available for purchase, if you have a 600 dpi printer at home you can print your own for free. The pen charges and connects via USB and has all the software included, but apps are available to download at livescribe.com

www.livescribe.com | Price: $159.00