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Ah, the familiar dread of math class. The traditional, cold, chalkboard-and-textbook, with a lecture about as stimulating as a Tae-bo infomercial to boot. Well, out with the old, as they say — laptops are changing the way students will study math in the future — and, at Liberty High School in Blue Hill, Maine — the future is now. Seymour […]
Continue reading »It’s one of the laptop owner’s worst nightmares. You are riding in a taxi, hoping to get to that important meeting on time. When the cab pulls up, you quickly pay the driver and rush to work. Something doesn’t quite feel right. You slow down as you recall the presentation you had worked on the night before, stored inside your […]
Continue reading »Monday, January 31, 2005 By Catherine Van Herrin and Lucy Layman Read all about it: Computer technological history is being made. Everyone’s logging on these days, from sprightly fifth graders to zimmer frame wielding octogenarians. Today’s notebook buyers are savvy and price-conscious smart, and computer manufacturers and retailers know they can’t be blindsided. Laptops are no longer viewed as a […]
Continue reading »I think you would agree, that things have gone a little quiet over the past two months, on the development of the fuel cell technology that will inevitably power out portable beasts in the coming years. However, another step on the road towards increased laptop battery efficiency has now been taken, with the announcement from an Intel sponsored initiative – […]
Continue reading »Montgomery, Virginia, is a city divided. It’s not about race or religion. It’s whether to provide every Montgomery High School student — and teacher — with laptop computers. This month, Montgomery’s residents will vote to decide whether to purchase 1,750 laptops — at a cost of $391,705. If approved, that cost will be applied to the already-allocated $350,000 for school […]
Continue reading »Maybe it’s the triple-digit temperatures, the sun baking their brains. Why else would Vail Unified School District in Arizona decide last month to replace all of its traditional textbooks with brand-spanking-new laptops? If you listen to the administrators at the school district, you may find that their idea is not so cockamamie. They actually have compelling reasons for the switch. […]
Continue reading »Laptops certainly have changed the world, to move away from a desktop and a cumbersome PC, is as liberating as running naked through the glass houses at Kew gardens (sorry if I stepped on your petunias chaps), and of course they are as versatile as a Swiss army knife – should I write another article or hack down a few […]
Continue reading »Once every decade or so, a true gem of an idea becomes a reality — and this time, it’s appeared to have hit the computer laptop industry — in a big way. Thanks to the vision of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT’s Media Lab, and the innovative design and structure ideas of a handful of his colleagues, a lightweight, $100 […]
Continue reading »I’ve taken bus rides with roosters before. I’ve taken off from Tijuana in a Mexican airliner with paperclips the only thing holding my chair in place to the cabin floor. I’ve been driven by lunatics in mountain passes wide enough for half a hatchback. And now I take public transportation in Philly. So I have no sympathy when I hear […]
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