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The Fly Fusion Pen - A MomGadget Review

by Gayla McCord on September 4th, 2007

Of all the product reviews we’ve ever conducted here on MomGadget, we’ve never encountered quite the battle that we have over one of our most recent reviews.

Once in a great while a product lands itself in the Gadget Household that everyone wants a piece of. This is one of them.

LeapFrog FLY Fusion Pentop Computer is an electronic pen with a brain and a recorded voice. While the target market leans toward Tweens this fat pen with a tiny optical scanner gives you the ability to draw a calculator and tap numbers to help figure out algebra homework or balance the checkbook. With the pen kids can also keep track of schedules and parents can keep track of kids.

The four gadget teens in our house have never had so much fun learning geography, math, languages, and actually strumming a tune on the keyboards and drums that doubles as a notebook.

To hear a menu of options, draw an “M” with a circle around it on the special FLYPaper. Tap the drawing with the Fly pen, and wait for the pen to recite menu options, including scheduler, calculator, time, notepad, settings, and Fly Fusion Pen Computer Games. To select an option, print a check mark to the right of the “M.” The computer announces your selection and options. It’s really that easy!

We all know that teens and tweens take to today’s electronic gadgets like a fish to water. Kids today have this amazing ability to turn on a gadget and begin using it in a matter of seconds. Unlike the days of hooking up a new DVD player and asking your 3-year-old to program it, adults can learn to use the Fly Pen with ease. You don’t have to be technologically enclined to function and with the nifty built in brain, you’re going to feel like Einstein. I’ll never tell it’s really the Fly Fusion Pen hiding in your pocket!

Forget the days of needing a translater, calculator and Day-Timer, it’s all here in one little err chubby pen.

The impact the Fly makes is immediately noticable in how kids using the Fly will learn and how much they actually enjoy learning. Reading words and numbers on the monitor of a computer is so last year and heaven forbid they have to use the boring pages of a book. Old school learning is very different from putting pen to paper and actually hearing responses.

With learning being more interactive and by using three methods of study, kids are more likely to remember the lesson learned - not to mention my one son who I swear has to become a doctor. The writing method only a doctor could translate is now as last year as the computer and he is writing SO much neater. It takes a neat handwriting in order for the Fly pen to work — What a perk!

It’s easy to see why the Fly Pen was the winner of the Toy of the Year Award for 2005! And this puppy is an improvement on that! Go-Figure!

You can choose from a complete library of homework tools such as Algebra, French Translator Pro, Spanish Translator Pro, FastComp Math Pro, Writing and more. The options and possibilities seem endless!

While the Fly pen is a bit pricey, it is one that’s well worth the investment of $79.99 via the LeapFrog website. If the kids get bored with it over time or figure out it’s actually a secret weapon to get them to learn - parents can step in and make full use of it.

I love products that don’t end up needing a one way ticket to the Land of Misfit Toys and have more functionality around the house like this nifty pen does.

With the holidays quickly approaching (I’ve actually purchased my first three Christmas gifts already!) and everyone beginning to think about their Christmas shopping list, you might consider adding a FLY Fusionâ„¢ Pentop Computer by LeapFrog to the list. You’re sure to be a hit!

Tags: Fly Pen, tween gadgets, teen gadgets, computer gadgets, Christmas ideas, momgadget review, product reviews

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