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Amplify Education's New Intel Tablet Begs For Abuse

Posted by timothy on from the it-was-askin'-for-it dept.

theodp writes "Bring it on, suggests the video for The Amplify Tablet, an Intel device (specs) developed for Rupert Murdoch's Amplify Education, which shows kids wrestling with, dropping, and even splashing the device. So is a ruggedized 10.1" device, which appears to be Amplify's answer to earlier fragility problems, the future of high-tech education? Or is go-big-or-go-home with a 27" touch screen the way to go, perhaps in some kind of next-gen-flip-top-school-desk? Or — cost be damned — are separate classroom and home devices what are really needed?"

2 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why all the books and backpack.... by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But a tablet will fix everything! Especially those poor children with level two lookalike firearms! (Fingers...) http://www.dispatch.com/conten...

    Seriosly, technology is not the problem...

  2. This leed makes the assumption by xombo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That these devices are necessary to begin with.