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