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 ...

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 ...

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 you were an American kid in the 1990s, chances are good that you may have been issued a little word processing machine by your school called an Alphasmart. These purpose-built machines created by ...

At this week’s NECC educational conference in New Orleans, La., Dana maker AlphaSmart Inc. introduced Neo, a new low-cost portable computer aimed at educational markets. The devices features an ...

The AlphaSmart NEO and NEO2 are great little word processors for distraction-free writing anywhere you want to go, but they lack the backlight of the later Dana model. Well, [starboyk] has done what ...

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 ...

Distraction-free writing tools are an admittedly niche category, but Astrohaus’ next device is at least paying homage to a cult favorite. The Freewrite Alpha, announced on August 28, appears to be ...

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 ...