Epson

Look, I'm not about to tell grown women what they can and can't have on their laptops, so here you go: the Hello Kitty laptop by Epson. Sure, I might advise you to just put Hello Kitty stickers on your laptop and save the extra money and trouble of buying a new one (although if Sanrio is working with Epson, I'd hope there'd be some sweet games built in at least), but I am officially not judging. After all, I'm finding it slightly more palatable than the Swarovski crystal-covered Hello Kitty laptop!

But if you do buy this laptop (available in Japan and currently about $1,400 with the exchange rate), I want to know what Hello Kitty crap is hiding inside!

I was still pretty young when the first laptops and "hand held" computers hit the market, but I remember being thrilled by their miniature size in comparison to my parents' clunker desktop. The Epson hand held HC-20 may look like a clunker to us today, but it was a real hit in its time.

I love the fact that the ad shows the male executive on the phone while the woman, who is presumably his secretary, takes notes. That certainly wouldn't fly as a campaign these days. As for the computer itself, it's a lot larger and clearly less advanced than our current laptops, but not as big as you might expect. To be fair it's a glorified typewriter, what with the tiny screen and all. For more photos, read more