History will always have its in-between technologies — that stuff that tides us over while the Next Big and Lasting Thing is getting the kinks worked out of it. These kinds of devices often do one ...

The AlphaSmart Neo is more a typing pad than an actual computer, which may appeal to schools with extremely limited needs. But everyone else (including most schools) would be better off with ...

AlphaSmart Inc.—which provides battery-powered laptop devices used in schools for word processing, calculating, and quiz taking—sold its shares publicly for the first time on Feb. 6. That move, ...

If there’s any one thing I’ve learned about myself during the COVID-19 quarantine, it’s that the internet is both my best friend and my worst enemy. Not that the distractions of the worldwide web are ...

Distraction salvation. Fantastically straightforward. PC data transfer is a breeze with USB or IR beaming. Rolling auto-save prevents data loss. Stated battery life is a spectacular 700 hours. Thin ...

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We in the gee-whiz high-tech world tend to forget some basic things about life. For instance, we have been conditioned to want computers that can do everything, no matter how little we actually do.

The 90s were a weird time for personal computing. Computers were bulky and laptops were chunky. They had all the computing power of your kid's scientific calculator (that's untrue, the modern ...

AlphaSmart has a new portable word processor out called the Neo which is basically a keyboard with a small 5.75-inch by 1.5-inch monochrome LCD screen attached to it. It's aimed pretty much ...

Isn’t this glorious? If you don’t recognize what this is right away (or from the post title), it’s an AlphaSmart NEO word processor, repackaged in a 3D-printed typewriter-esque shell, meticulously ...