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The EchoPen Computer is an electronic personal learning tool that gives users real-time audio feedback as they touch, write, and draw on special Echo interactive paper. The EchoPen uses an optical scanner that sees everything you scan and write on special dot-matrix Echo paper.EchoPen users can draw a calculator on a piece of paper, touch the handwritten digits and functions to perform an operation -- then hear the answer announced from the EchoPen computer. A student can write a word in English and hear it translated into Spanish with the Echo translation software, do math calculations, or draw a piano keyboard and play it.
The EchoPen is a computer. And like it's desktop cousin, the EchoPen is expandable. The EchoPen can be expanded via specialized cartridges that sell for $9.95 up to $39.95. Many cartridges will be available, including an all ages English-Spanish Dictionary that includes 20,000 words (10,000 English and 10,000 Spanish entries). A student can write the word "cat," for example, and hear "cat; el gato; e-l g-a-t-o; el gato." A test-prep package for math, science, and social studies for grades 6 - 8 that is directly correlated to over 90 percent of all grade 6 - 8 math, science, and social studies textbooks in the country. The student picks the text and chapter, and then plays games answering questions focused on the key concepts for that chapter.