There’s no crying in baseball. There are no mobile phones, smartphones or PDAs either. [Image: Fenway Park visitor's clubhouse, via CNET]
Fisher-Price’s iXL is a learning tool for young’ns that lets them read interactively, draw, look at pictures and play games – pretty much everything your kids currently do on your iPhone but without you having to worry about jam-hands.
Ten years ago, you could buy the HP Jornada 548 with a colour screen, which let you listen to MP3s, surf the web, check your email and keep a calendar. It had a touchscreen. It ran Windows. It was awesome.
Acer, makers of the 10-inch Aspire One netbook coming later this year, could be prepared to take business in a new direction, if a recent U.S. patent filing is to be believed.