| With so many new ?toys? around nowadays it?s hard | | | | market. Yesterday I was browsing online and came |
| to figure the aim of the toy market. | | | | across the new Sony ?walkman phone? ( ). This is |
| My 9 year old son Jack got a visit from Santa | | | | where I see it all going ? the ?everything in one? |
| recently. Santa was very good to Jack ? he got him | | | | phone. The new walkman phone does more than just |
| an IPod and a PSP ? the exact same as I got. I grew | | | | a phone ? it?s also your IPod, and your PSP. The |
| up playing games and totally love the PSP ? it?s like | | | | walkman phone has the same amount of memory as |
| the toy I dreamed of when I was younger, and now | | | | my IPod (2Gb) and can do everything my IPod does ? |
| that I have my IPod I don?t know how I suffered the | | | | it comes with a USB cable for downloading from your |
| bus to work without it. | | | | computer, and can hook up to play your MP3s in your |
| But how old do you get before you forget about kids | | | | car, just like the IPod. It also plays games ? games of |
| toys and move on to big boys toys? It only seems like | | | | better quality than the games I grew up with! |
| yesterday that I was shopping at kids stores for Jack. | | | | I thought that the PSP was what I dreamed of having |
| The last present I remember going into town to get | | | | when I was a child, but it was actually one of these |
| him was one of those kids easel things for doing his | | | | things ? a gadget that is everything you want, and fits |
| paintings (one of these things: ). And now, only a | | | | right into your pocket. What next can technology |
| couple of years later he?s playing with the same | | | | produce to astound me? |
| things as me. | | | | I think that Jack will be showing me the next thing that |
| Is he growing up too fast? Am I not growing up fast | | | | technology has to shock me. When I was a child there |
| enough? Or is it just society that is moving so fast for | | | | were adult things, and children things. But not today ? |
| us that age differences are starting to disappear into | | | | now we have the same things; and Jack can beat me |
| the past? | | | | at any game when we link up our PSPs, and he also |
| Can technology become the bridge over the | | | | showed me how to put my music from my computer |
| generation-gap? Will the future bring the ultimate toy | | | | to my IPod. Maybe the question isn?t whether |
| gadget that will be the essential of everyone young | | | | technology will bring kids into the same level of adults, |
| and old? I?m continually astounded nowadays at some | | | | but does it put children on a much higher plane to us?? |
| of the new products that are constantly hitting the | | | | |