[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

I have no idea how they can get to a $99 price ,...but if so it would be a game changer for the education field....

I could see really being able to show some good geometry constructions with this.

You could have everything prepakaged rather than standing at a blackboard using multicolored chalk....which I have done...some students still had trouble understanding.

[Marine_Uncle]

E said... "You could have everything prepakaged rather than standing at a blackboard using multicolored chalk....which I have done...some students still had trouble understanding."
Good idea. I can see the benefits derived from using such tools for teaching.

[SunkenCiv]

The Kindle marketing should have been to textbook publishers *first* — there are such obvious advantages for reducing the cost of education, and if/when no longer wanted or needed, the used machines would be sold at what used to be campus- and off-campus bookstores. Amazon blew that.