FLY Pentop Computer: LeapFrog's Big Flop - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk
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LeapFrog spent about $100 million to build "the world's first" pentop computer. Let see how well that worked!
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00:00 Introduction
00:38 Brief History of LeapFrog
03:41 FLY’s Early Development
05:14 FLY Marketing / Commercials
06:48 FLY Hardware, Software, Special Paper
10:07 How Does FLY Technology Work?
11:06 Testing Apps and Features
13:13 Company Acquisitions
14:26 Meet FLY Fusion!
17:33 Fusion Deep Dive
19:56 LeapFrog Struggles and FLY Flops
22:24 LeapFrog Today
23:05 Where’s Jim and Mike?
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