Jeni's Musings

Congratulations on your new t/o/y/ learning tool! Once you have a chance to try it out, you may be interested in the new verison of the Fly Pentop that Leapfrog has just introduced…the Fly Fusion pentop computer. I “accidentally” ran across it and ordered one from Amazon.com as a pre-release the day before they started shipping it (basically August 1), and can recommend it as a great step forward (for $70 MSRP).

It does most of the same things the original Fly does, plus play your .mp3s as well. A USB computer interface allows downloading the .mp3s and serves to recharge the battery and add new functions downloaded from the Fly web site. But the big win, out of the box, is that you can take notes and draw on the Fly paper in the notebook provided, and upload the page to your PC. It will turn the drawings into images and the notes into text documents which you can import into Word or other apps…basically come up with an editable image of your notebook page. And, yes, it does recognize upper and lower case.

So don’t invest too much in accessories for your Fly until you see if you want to upgrade to the latest and greatest…

Tom Cook