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BUSINESS PARTNERS
FLY
Software has established partnerships with
key players in the world of digital pen and paper using the FLY platform.
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LeapFrog's Fly is based
on digital pen technology from the Swedish company Anoto. But
with a high powered processing chipset, a wealth of expansion
options, and the ability to talk, it's in a category all its
own. Digital learning may never be the same.
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| Upgrade Slot |
Snap-in cartridges are
sold in separate expansion packs. Each one holds a 2- to 8-Mbyte
application for an activity like language instruction, arithmetic,
spelling, interactive journal writing, or game playing.
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| Brain |
A custom CPU sits at
the heart of the Fly. This processor churns through grid information,
performs voice decompression, produces multichannel polyphonic
music, handles interactive character recognition, and executes
text-to-speech code. Secondary chips help with memory, audio
output, and power management.
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| Voice Box |
The Fly speaks by quickly
assembling groups of phonetic building blocks. It understands
more than 70,000 words but will pronounce almost anything you
throw at it.
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| Paper |
Every piece of Fly Paper
is printed with a fine mesh of dots. A mapping chip keeps track
of where the tip of the pen has been and feeds that data into
the CPU. The pen knows where it is within a 1.8-million-square-mile
grid. Each unique sheet is a tiny chunk of this space.
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| Camera |
Pressure on the Fly's
ball point activates an infrared camera in the tip. The camera
records the pen's position on a piece of Fly Paper at 75 time-stamped
frames per second, letting the pen "read" everything
it writes.
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| The Flycons |
The pen's menu structure
is navigated through a series of symbols called Flycons. These
are handwritten letters placed in either circles or boxes. Tapping
this M, for example, scrolls through the Fly's menu list, which
includes games, a scheduler, a calculator, and a note pad. Making
a check next to a Flycon (or tapping an existing check) tells
the pen to enter the last mode stated.
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