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The World's Largest Touchscreen

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-seen-bigger dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, has converted a 3D theater into the world's largest touchscreen, used for teaching mathematics and computer science students interactivity. The screen has a curvature of 135 degrees and is transparent."

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  1. Re:Distraction? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This just in, Technology is over-hyped in education.

    I'm in education, and I see technology being employed simply for technology's sake.

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    Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
  2. Direct link to the source of the story by ahecht · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about linking directly to the source, instead of to this blogspam: http://www.rug.nl/cit/hpcv/nieuws/touchscreen1

  3. Re:Why? by ahecht · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you go to the source at http://www.rug.nl/cit/hpcv/nieuws/touchscreen1 you will see that it wasn't created for teaching math at all (the blogspam linked from the story seems to have made that up). According to RUG: "the initial goal was to facilitate the scientists studying Geographic Information Systems and a research group that studies interaction methods for touch screens"

  4. I have seen better. by patjhal · · Score: 3, Informative

    This has resolution equivalent to two 4k screens and is LCD technology where that looks like projectors. http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=4&indi=727