MS Research had a neat demo on this very topic some time ago.
Edit: never mind, it seems they use their own hardware. In that case, it would be interesting to know if iOS allows fast raw access to the external periphery.
It should be noted that unless Microsoft had a 1000Hz display running, there was something fishy going on with their 1ms update.
http://owenimholte.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/ipad-3-screen-re...
Paraphrased from our Kickstarter page: Thanks to those that have identified an issue with our drawing video clips, they were shot with a high fps camera and included in our video at HALF SPEED. In response, our video will be adjusted to demonstrate the drawing at normal speed. Additionally, we have identified areas to further optimize our algorithms for you to ensure that any latency is fully minimized. You can consider drawing speed to be equivalent experience to the iPad touch interface; if not better. Cheers, Rob (CEO) Collusion
By the way we are now 'de lurking' as we have finally got some sleep after the marathon lead-up to the kickstarter launch - 53 hours and no kip is not pleasant! Feel free to ask us questions directly. There is a LOT of work going into Collusion to address many of the existing fundamental issues of pen on tablet computing (many raised right here on hacker news inc latency, accuracy, palm rejection etc) we kindly ask you do this before reaching for the nearest pitchfork:) Talk to us.
My use case is simple, I just want a digital copy of my notes -- I don't need any OCR or anything fancy like that, and I'm not convinced that a LiveScribe is the way to go.
I had high hopes for the NoteSlate, but that product has turned out to be vapor ware.
The thing with the smart pens is that they're chunkier than I'm used to, and then I worry about the smoothness of the pens.
I know the LiveScribe doesn't have gel based ink refills, which is basically the only type of pen I write with. I find the friction from normal ball point pens a little uncomfortable.
Some good starters are the LAMY Safari, the TWSBI 540, and the Kaweco Sport. All of these cost <$50 and can take bottled ink (with possible modifications to the Kaweco), reducing refill costs drastically.
I, too, used to think gel pens were the bomb, but writing with a fountain pen is just something else. :D
If you're trying to do mirror writing they become awesome again, but that's not a frequent use case:-(
The laggy footage starting at 0:28 looks like real-time to me. You can see the crosshair falling behind at 0:35 too, and that's clearly normal speed unless the guy can do handwriting in slow-motion. And I can't think of any way a high framerate would affect the perception of lag when played in realtime.