FLY Pentop talking pen by LeapFrog. It does stuff, like become a calculator, speak your words, allow you to play and record music, and tells knock-knock jokes (okay, that last one isn't true, but it's pretty cool). It retails in the $100 range, so is more practical for those who need that "wow" factor or who are made of money and purchase $100 stocking stuffers for Miffy, Babs, Tad, and the rest of the gang. My only criticism is that sometimes it's not clear what your next action needs to be unless you RTFM. It took me a good 5 minutes to figure out how to actually SELECT the instruments option (it didn't tell me to draw a checkmark and click it like it did with the calculator). Anyway, neat idea. We don't own the pen so it has already been returned to its rightful owner.
Friday, December 09, 2005
Another nifty holiday gift
Last night Hay and I played with this FLY Pentop talking pen by LeapFrog. It does stuff, like become a calculator, speak your words, allow you to play and record music, and tells knock-knock jokes (okay, that last one isn't true, but it's pretty cool). It retails in the $100 range, so is more practical for those who need that "wow" factor or who are made of money and purchase $100 stocking stuffers for Miffy, Babs, Tad, and the rest of the gang. My only criticism is that sometimes it's not clear what your next action needs to be unless you RTFM. It took me a good 5 minutes to figure out how to actually SELECT the instruments option (it didn't tell me to draw a checkmark and click it like it did with the calculator). Anyway, neat idea. We don't own the pen so it has already been returned to its rightful owner.
FLY Pentop talking pen by LeapFrog. It does stuff, like become a calculator, speak your words, allow you to play and record music, and tells knock-knock jokes (okay, that last one isn't true, but it's pretty cool). It retails in the $100 range, so is more practical for those who need that "wow" factor or who are made of money and purchase $100 stocking stuffers for Miffy, Babs, Tad, and the rest of the gang. My only criticism is that sometimes it's not clear what your next action needs to be unless you RTFM. It took me a good 5 minutes to figure out how to actually SELECT the instruments option (it didn't tell me to draw a checkmark and click it like it did with the calculator). Anyway, neat idea. We don't own the pen so it has already been returned to its rightful owner.
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It also looks like one of those blood sugar testing things.
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