Although Leapfrog had recently shown off their two new handheld gaming systems, the Leapster 2 and Didj, one new product they haven't yet announced—until now—is the "Crammer," a 1GB portable media player with the ability to integrate pre-programmed flashcards and machine-pronounced vocabulary words. While it's far from the most advanced music player out there—it's got a low-rez monochrome screen, for one—it's not meant to kill the iPod, but to instead give middle schoolers and teens a way to listen to music while they cram for tests. The Crammer's interface is navigated using a rocking screen (like the iRiver Clix) as well as two buttons on the top—pressing on the corners of the screen itself like a giant D-pad moves the cursor. Vocabulary and flashcard questions are programmed in using a Windows- or Mac-based software interface.

There is only 1GB of storage on the Crammer, which isn't a ton, but it's plenty for a few albums. (Leapster's booth rep said they may consider a future version that can accept expanded flash memory chips.) But the MSRP is only $60—an easily sell by kids who want to give their parents an excuse to purchase their first MP3 player.

The Crammer will be available in the Fall. Curiously it appears to transcode all music into Ogg Vorbis for native playback on the device. (At least I presume they transcode; surely they don't expect 3rd to 8th graders to be sitting on a big collection of Ogg files.)

Full press release and another picture of the interface after the jump.