FLY Fusion Pentop Computer - Black

by LeapFrog

Product Features

• Puts revolutionary technology at your child's fingertips
• Working pen is a powerful computer!
• Scans and digitizes what kids write for upload to home PC
• Includes special FLY Paper, software for games, math help, and more

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000S5MA8C
• Item model number: Blackjack
• Manufacturer recommended age: 3 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,302 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #22 in Toys & Games > Preschool > Pre-Kindergarten Toys > Learning > Reading & Writing
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Product Description

This is Pentop Computing, the next generation of high-speed digital processing, developed to deliver high-speed homework help in the palm of your hand. With the FLY Fusion Pentop Computer, everything you write on FLY? Paper is automatically scanned and digitized. With the tap of your FLY Fusion Pentop Computer, you can interact with your notes, get instant feedback and step-by-step help, even play MP3s and games, all on paper! FLY Fusion Pentop Computer includes: Rechargeable Battery, Memory Expansion Slot, FLY Fusion Installation CD, FLY? Notebook, FLY World Application, 13 FLY Fusion Games, and USB Cable. The FLY Fusion Pentop Computer only works with FLY Fusion software and accessories, and is not compatible with FLY 1.0 products. *This product is not currently compatible with Macintosh operating systems*

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fly fusion pentop computer (black version), January 14, 2008

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S. Thompson "-S. Thompson" (St.Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FLY Fusion Pentop Computer - Black (Toy)

this pen is the fly fusion pentop computer, if you have heard of the gray one, it is the EXACT same thing, only a different color. (black)

The pen itself is truly quite remarkable, it knows what you're writing, it reacts to what you write, it talks, the color of the light on the front of the pen tells you what it is doing, and so much more. You have to buy specially designed fly fusion notebooks for this pen, and it will not work with other paper. sure, it will still write, but all the features will not be of access. the notebooks are 7.99 each, and some say its a waste of money, but they are really quite thick, and last a long time. when you buy the pen, a notebook comes with it, but its a sampler version. (approximetly 1/3, perhaps 1/4 the size of an actual notebook) this sampler notebook is designed for the use of just testing it out. On the inside cover of the notebook, their is a control panel (where you can adjust the volume, turn the recording feature on or off, add reminders, set the date/time, set a scheduler, play Mp3's, access the menu, and SO much more. on the back inside cover of the notebook is the music studio. it only lets you play with the basics (the piano/keyboard, the beats, and some other features) if you buy the music studio pro ($6-10) you can use all the features (which is quite a bit more). with that, you can record your music, save what you play (up to 4 songs) and various other fun things. On the notebook paper itself, are a series of tiny dots scattered across the page, thousands of them, to read what you are writing. it tracks your motion on the page, and reacts to it. if you record what you write, you simply go to the cover of the notebook, click "record ON" and write. when you're done, go back, and click "record OFF". you can do this to front and back of the notebook page, and if you write a 1/2 page (recording it) and then press record off, and then later come back, and write on the rest of the page (recording it) it will save into the computer as two different documents. so when you're done recording (you can record up to about 20 documents (way more if you buy the additional fly fusion memory cartridge) before uploading them onto the computer. when you do, you simply attach the pen to the USB cord, plug it into your PC (no mac support) (must be windows '98 or higher, windows XP is the best for it, and vista works too) when it is plugged in, it will automatically download whatever you wrote to your computer. you can see it digitized how you wrote it (with your handwriting) you can email it like that, or you can turn it into text (wordpad works!, you dont need to have microsoft word/office or anything!) and you can save it, email it, blog it, whatever! if you write in cursive, it still works, but you need to write neater. otherwise, it is pretty flexible for your penmanship. if you connect your letters, you need to stop doing that (a bad habit of mine) otherwise it will get all messed up. Since the fly fusion is designed towards a younger age group, its extrememly easy to set up, download things, and so on. almost too easy! of course younger kids arent the only ones that would find this pen helpful, i myself am i high school student, and bought it for the purpose of downloading my notes to text. that part i use all the time. i hadnt planned on using all the other features (games, translator, journal, etc.) but find myself using them all the time! they are way more fun than i expected, and i find it hard to believe that younger kids could solve some of the games. some of them are actually quite challenging and i have yet to figure them out myself! which makes it all the more fun of course.

All the software features are very fun, and i use them all the time (especially the spanish translator pro) they have french too. all of them run very smoothly, and i have no trouble at all. my younger siblings have no trouble with them either.

Overall, this pen is amazing, and i think leapfrog has made quite a discovery with this pen. i highly recommend it, it is extremely helpful, educational, and fun! it plays Mp3's, so whoever likes to listen to music while doing homework, it's all set! I havent gotten bored of it (some people claim to have) and dont ever plan to. i see this as an item i would use almost as frequently as a cell phone, and much more useful! (who's cell phone translates spanish?!) not to mention very educational.

so, bottom line? buy it! you won't be making the wrong choice. at first, i was worried about the price, and if i would even use it. sure, it sounds cool, but...would i use it? it hasnt turned out to be a problem for me! :D

**check out my reviews of other fly fusion products! (software, etc)

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars just an FYI about this item, December 1, 2009

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Mom2Boys (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FLY Fusion Pentop Computer - Black (Toy)

I was actually just researching this item as a possible gift for my 5th grader & found out some info I thought would be good to share. According to a post I saw on the leapfrog forums, because of CPSIA legislation regarding lead content standards for users under 12("The FLY Fusion Pen contains the same leaded tip as all ball point pens") this item is being pulled & is currently not being supported until the company can find a way to make the pen compliant. I can understand this, but am surprised the company is still selling the product when they cannot provide support or refills for it. Hopefully they have something in the works, as it sounds like a fabulous product, but I won't be getting one if they cannot provide any support for it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pen Rocks - I use it for work!, February 13, 2008

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N. Roepke (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FLY Fusion Pentop Computer - Black (Toy)

FLY Fusion Pentop Computer - Black (Only at Target)

This is an incredible tool! I have been searching and trying out various 'ink' like solutions for my notes at work. I have an iPen, but I don't like the cord and it is not convenient to need to bring a laptop with. Additionally, I am very visual and my handwriting doesn't look like mine with they product.

I found the Fly Pen/Pentop computer in the isle with the mp3 players when I was Christmas shopping. For the cost, I figured I would give it a try. It is incredible! I have only really used the record writing feature and have not explored all the other 'cool' things that it can do.

I think back to college and think this would be a killer tool and would have saved me so much time! Architecture students have to print so the OCR to Word or some other word processing application would be totally easy.

I just really love having my work notes digitized. I combine the use of this with OneNote 2003 and just take screen clippings of my notes. Then I handle all of my follow up tasks or additional notes at my desk. I can then keep the images searchable within OneNote without having to OCR them (because OneNote has page headers and other searchable things).

I love that if I touch the notebook activation spot on a notebook and go back to add notes to a page, it knows the page I am on and re-synchronizes that page to include my updates.

The only drawback the price of the notebooks. Over an extended period of time (for someone that takes a lot of notes, this could be cost prohibitive.)

I don't like that it talks to me if I write a certain letter and circle it, so that is conveniently handled by just turning down the volume to nothing at the start of a meeting.

LOVE IT!!!!