“Our hopes are strong for it,” said LeapFrog President Jerry Perez in an interview. “There’s nothing else in the market like it.” The Fly pentop computer is a talking, computerized pen that can ...

LeapFrog Enterprises Inc., an Emeryville, Calif.-based maker of electronic learning products, reported a quarterly profit last month, reversing a loss from a year earlier. The company attributed the ...

Have we come so far as not to need pens anymore to capture the written word? Of course not. Laptops and Tablet PCs are gaining popularity, of course, and they've become many a student's best friend.

LEAPFROG Enterprises Inc. has launched a talking computer pen that can function as a calculator, language translator and interactive planner — among other things. The “FLY” pentop computer is aimed at ...

LeapFrog's much-ballyhooed Fly pentop computer has finally made it onto retail shelves — just in time for the holiday shopping season — and David Pogue of The New York Times has a review that ...

Aimed squarely at kids 8 to 13 years old—who are getting too old for electronic games that look like toys—the FLY is a product sure to draw gasps whenever it's used. The FLY combines a scanner, ...

The Good: It's well made, affordable, and genuinely innovative; its pedagogical software design is inspired The Bad: Waiting for audio cues can get tiresome; makes the occasional mistake recognizing ...

Have we come so far as not to need pens anymore to capture the written word? Of course not. Laptops and Tablet PCs are gaining popularity, of course, and they've become many a student's best friend.