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 ...

There are a handful of gadgets that do one thing so well that they become cult classics long after the company that made them has moved on or closed up shop. [This Does Not Compute] takes us through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Freelance writers are typically paid by the article, not by the hour, so idle web-surfing does nothing but lower my paycheck. Meet the NEO: a bare bones word processor for the perennially distractible ...

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 ...

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The AlphaSmart Neo2 is a portable word processor that was released nearly two decades ago as a device that provides a distraction-free writing experience without all the extra stuff that comes with a ...

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 ...