When it comes to keeping paper alive and kicking in an ever-increasing tablet-sketching world, leave it up to Moleskine to find ways of bridging the divide. Earlier this year, the sketchbook giant announced a partnership with smartpen manufacturer Livescribe that offers a solution for backing up your analog sketches into the cloud. Previously, the Italian…

Your measly, little common pens are about to become insanely jealous. You may have warned them that smartpens were a comin’ but being the arrogant pens that they are, they simply taunted you with ink leaks and repeated trips to the stock cabinet. Now, they’ll take notice. The Livescribe Echo Smartpen is showing it’s face…