| 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 where |
| My 9 year old son Jack got a visit from Santa | | | | I see it all going - the "everything in one" phone. The |
| recently. Santa was very good to Jack - he got him | | | | new walkman phone does more than just a phone - |
| an IPod and a PSP - the exact same as I got. I grew | | | | it's also your IPod, and your PSP. The walkman phone |
| up playing games and totally love the PSP - it's like the | | | | has the same amount of memory as my IPod (2Gb) |
| toy I dreamed of when I was younger, and now that I | | | | and can do everything my IPod does - it comes with a |
| have my IPod I don't know how I suffered the bus to | | | | USB cable for downloading from your computer, and |
| work without it. | | | | can hook up to play your MP3s in your car, just like the |
| But how old do you get before you forget about kids | | | | IPod. It also plays games - games of better quality than |
| toys and move on to big boys toys? It only seems like | | | | 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 things | | | | produce to astound me? |
| 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 | | | | |