LCD Touch Screen "PDA"s for Kids? 13
John Q. Public asks: "I've seen the commercials on the usual children oriented channels this weekend, but I can find no technical data on the Mattel/Tyco Playtime/Fisher-Price Pixter, which investor and general press releases call a PDA for kids. It appears to have a 100x100 (or so) pixel 2 color touch-sensitive LCD 'with audio,' and accepts optional ROM packs for new functionality. I'd rush right out and buy one, but Amazon has the best price I've seen so far (US$40). Does anyone have any knowledge of these devices, specifically processor and 'ROM pack' details?
Though I don't think I can pry the I Opener with the DOS based games away from my 3.5 year old, the Pixter might make road trips a bit more fun."
Wow. (Score:1)
Looks like you need these sites: (Score:2, Informative)
http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/
Software for your LCD screen.
http://www.matrixorbital.com/
LCD source
Crystalfontz has them in the $45 US price range.
http://www.crystalfontz.com/cgi-bin/pricing.pl?
I think I had one of these when I was a kid... (Score:3, Funny)
- Freed
Re:I think I had one of these when I was a kid... (Score:1)
- Freed
Something funny (slightly OT)... (Score:1)
Any I/O? (Score:2)
If nothing else, you could get a single output bit by latching an address bit whenever a certain location in the rom is fetched. And you could get a single input bit by giving up half the rom's address space, and attaching the input bit to the rom's most significant address bit. Duplicate the half ROM's contents, only have one subroutine in the upper half return a one instead of a zero.
Hack, hack.
-russ
When will they learn (Score:2)
How long before software that does this same thing is available for the Palm OS?
Apple eMate (Score:1)
There's a lot of information on the web, easily accessible with Google [google.com], but here's some for starters:
eMate 300 Review [thereviewzone.com]
MessagePad 2100, 2000 and eMate [the-gadgeteer.com]
You can still find these pretty often on eBay [ebay.com].
Does anyone remember "The Animator"? (Score:1)
The year after I got it, they came out with an advanced version called the "Animator 2000" which had a stylus and a touch screen.
This pixter thing bears an uncanny resemblance to the Animator 2000, except for the price and the fact that the pixter can take expansion cartridges, and the colour has changed. (The animators were grey with blue buttons, IIRC)
I've tried to find links for these, but to no avail. It was a pretty cool toy, though.
--R
Have the carrionsound folks heard of this?! (Score:1)
this is the mothership of aleoric glitch wastelands. 1/4" output, speaker/1/4" switch, external clock power on/off (w/ blue led). use pen to create intensly painful screetching sounds!!!
Y'know what I hate about Ask Slashdot? (Score:2)
-russ