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 ...

Instead of looking like a typewriter, it was essentially a flat keyboard with a small monochrome screen on the top. If you were a K-12 student in the mid-to-late 90s, you saw stacks of these in ...

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It turns out that you can use the iPad Camera Connection Kit to connect the rugged Alphasmart Neo - a dedicated word processor with a keyboard, six-line LCD screen, and lineage dating to 1993 - to the ...

Then I found the Alphasmart Neo 2. The chunky black keyboard called to me immediately, ... and its e-ink screen makes reading what you’ve written a much more pleasant experience overall.

AlphaSmart, Inc. is now shipping the Neo by AlphaSmart. Designed as a simple, and cheaper solution for one-to-one classroom computing, the company watns this lightweight, rugged device to also appeal ...