Etch-A-Sketch
Coming to Cell Phones
June29.2005
NEW
YORK (AP) - For doodlers who can't get enough etching and sketching
at home, Etch-A-Sketch is coming to a cell phone.
The
nearly 50-year-old classic toy, adapted for the mobile phone by a company
named In-Fusio, is being introduced in Britain on a wide array of handsets
by the cellular carrier Orange.
The
cellular version can't replicate the look and feel of the original red-and-rectangular
plastic toy, which is still produced by Ohio Art Co.
And
users will have to settle for a key pad rather than white knobs. But
there is one key advantage: For the first time, In-Fusio said, doodlers
will be able to save their drawings - up to three in the phone's memory.
The
new mobile edition is the second digital reincarnation of Etch-A-Sketch.
Last year, Ohio Arts introduced a video game in which doodlers use a
controller to draw on a television screen.
The
traditional Etch-A-Sketch works by turning two knobs to move a stylus
up, down and diagonally along the inside of the plastic screen, etching
lines through a coating of metallic powder.
On
the cellular version, users move the virtual "stylus" around the phone's
screen by pressing the number pad or directional arrows.
One
key distinction that Etch-A-Sketch aficionados might mourn is that erasing
a cellular sketch does not involve the vigorous shaking needed to recoat
the real toy's screen with powder.
But
In-Fusio has devised an alternative: When a user presses the "0" key
to erase a drawing, the phone also vibrates.
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