• Don’t worry about losing an image – lock the erase button! Always keep your stylus close-by with the built-in holder.
• Ultra low power consumption. One set of batteries (2 AAAA-included) will last tens of thousands of erases! Erase your image with the touch of a button and a friendly flash from the liquid crystal display.
• The Boogie Board tablet is less than a 1/4″ thin and is easy to take with you in a purse, scheduler, briefcase or backpack.
• The case and LCD are made from durable plastic materials. Safe for school use and all around the house, office and car.
• The Boogie Board tablet’s pressure-sensitive LCD writing surface creates lines of different thickness based on how hard you push – just like paper and pen!
• Write or draw with the included stainless steel stylus or any other suitable instrument – even your finger! You’ll never need to search for a pen or pencil again!
• Whats in the Box: Boogie Board 10.5 Tablet, Stylus, Cleaning Cloth, User Guide

The Boogie Board is characterized by a flat, black design. It’s very thin; sitting on a flat surface, it measures less than a quarter of an inch. Its bezel is almost nonexistent, just trailing grey plastic around the edges. On top, the frame is slightly bigger, and incorporates the Boogie Board logo, an erase button (more on that later) and at the very top, an integrated holder for the included stainless steel stylus.

Flipping the unit over reveals a plain back with a slide off cover. Pulling off the small cover reveals the battery compartment, which holds two ‘AAAA’ batteries. Keeping the batteries small allowed the company to make the Boogie Board thin, and keeping the batteries disposable allowed them to keep it cheap.

Adding the removable batteries is actually one of the more notable improvements made to the Boogie Board between the earlier model and this one, which belongs to the second generation. In the original layout, the Boogie Board had small batteries directly soldered into place, which allowed for 50,000 erases, or screenwipes. Now, once that limit is reached (which probably won’t happen for years), you can just swap the batteries out.

The Boogie Board also feels very durable. Inside of the tablet, the display is actually constructed on a plastic substrate – not glass. That alone makes this gadget more hazard-resistant than most. I’ve tossed it in my bag that was packed to the brim, and some eReaders might crack under that pressure, but the Boogie Board came through with flying colors. We’ve even thrown it across the room and nothing happened. That lends a lot of weight to the company’s goal of putting these into the hands of schoolchildren.