PDAs For Kids

fiftyfly writes "Wired's running a story about the Pixter - a sort of etch-a-sketch/palm love child. At an estimated $50.00 I'm sure someone out there must have had a go at hacking it. No mention of anyway of getting the drawings off, I'd imagine that would be a good place to start. For $75CAD I'd give it a go, eh?"

Comments

Reminds me

[i_want_you_to_throw_]

of my first Sony.....

crayons

[EricBoyd]

Man, kids these days! Back in my day, we were happy with pencils. And crayons, man, a pack of those could keep us happy for weeks, until nothing but little stubs were left!

Now kids got all these newfangled toys with bright color lcd's... it's almost sick! I bet they don't get the preverse pleasure of drawing on walls with 'em thou...

Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon

Re:The Original Solid State is Better

[G-funk]

Yeah you're right, better not give your kids any pencils while you're at it.

Re:The Original Solid State is Better

[qslack]

I'd get him/her an Etch-A-Sketch for $10 rather than this $50 "creativity device", as the article calls it.

Hell, I'd get my cow-orkers a $10 Etch-a-sketch instead of a $3000 laptop! Pocket the difference. They'll never notice.

For God's sake

[v23]

Give the kids paper and pencils.

Video Game?

[screwballicus]

Is this a video game? If so, will my scribbly pictures of pretty houses and pretty trees be a protected form of speech under new legal precedent?

Think about it people! Kids could draw anything in this video game. They could draw offensive words, or lewd sexual acts. They might even hack the device to install a free operating system that in every way contradicts the principles on which our capitalist nation is based. They could visually depict violent acts and criminal behaviour! Are these the kinds of things we want our kids seeing? Hell, no. Expose your kids to this kind of medium, and they'll be sexually retrograde serial killers in no time. Censor the art of drawing! Now!

Re:Isn't this the point of the Cybiko?

[echucker]

Actually, the real point of the device is to keep kids from walking off with Mommy or Daddy's Palm and dipping it in a jar full of jelly, or putting it in the fish tank to showy Goldie what they drew.