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"Smart Board" To Replace White Boards?
ZiZ writes "The BBC has released a story reporting a growing level of interest in Smart Board technology - particularly due to the efforts of Virtual-Ink's Mimio and variants thereof. Mimio gathers the information written on a whiteboard by virtue of "infared and ultrasonic receivers", stores it in a mobile base station, and allows for later downloading to a computer; it also has the ability to interface with a presentation, browser, or whatnot, in a mode they call mimioMouse, to allow cheap, interactive, real-time smartboards.This looks like it could be the high-tech breakthrough schools everywhere, not just in the UK, have been waiting for - or at least the beginning...and at a mere $400 or so, it's almost affordable enough to justify one in the home, too!"
That's just great - we finally replaced our greenboard with a blackboard yesterday and here comes electronic whiteboards! Those redboards and blueboards must have snuck right by us. Talk about a paradigm shift...
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A function to create the sound of chalk scraping, to wake sleeping undergrads?
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I'd not want to give that up if I was a lecturer.
So you're saying if you specify price in hexidecimal British pounds, they'll give it to you for free? Sweeeet . . .
We had some similiar boards at my universtiy (ucr.edu) These particular boards were an actual white board with a VGA out that could be hooked up to a projector. So to keep the board and projection in sync -- you had to select wether you were "erasing" (using an eraser) or writing with a a control panel to the right of the board... To make matters worse, while in erase mode the board squeals to let you know its in erase mode -- the squeal roughly coresponds to the velocity at which you move the eraser :-)
:) HE'S, frustrated, he figures out the erase button and selects it, and erases the board again (this time correctly). He picks up a pen while still in erase mode and writes the next page of the lecture on the board. Meanwhile the class is sitting dead silent as the board is just squealing making these odd kind of vocal noises as he writes ... so I yell out "Chewie!? Is that you!?" in response to the wookie noises the board is making :) The entire lecture hall bursts out laughing (250 people) and the professor is staring at me with two glaring eyes as hot as the sun... I think he would have strangeled me if I was any closer to him :)
Theres this universally hated professor, this guy is a capital asshole...one day in his course he decides to use the marker board. He writes out the first page of his text -- muddling his way through it. To erase the board he picks up the eraser, well this draws all over the screen because he's not in erase mode
ok, story time is over...
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"it's almost affordable enough to justify one in the home, too!"
Don't laugh too hard.. there is a couple of math/comp sci professors at my university to live together and have a blackboard in their bedroom.
ok.. maybe you should laugh... taking derivatives is NOT foreplay.
>>The downsides to it are that, left unchecked, the suction cups will pull off the wall and the whole business crashes to the floor.
The suction cups fail and the next thing you know you're filing for Chapter 11?
Jesus Christ... You'd think that'd show up in user testing.