Techies 7: All about future of education

NO PAPER, NO WORRIES:-

Earlier this week Sony unveiled a new digital paper prototype device with a couple of key differences over what we’re used to seeing in e-readers. The first is its size. Rather than the typical 6-inch displays such as the Kindle uses, Sony has gone with a 13.3-inch 1200 x 1600 A4 panel. The other key difference is the fact you can use a stylus to scribble notes on your e-books.
 Sony has now decided to show off what its digital paper notepad can do at a trade show.
Its ultra light, that’s due to the fact it doesn’t use glass for the display, just plastic. In fact, the display is the new E Ink Mobius panel, which has been created with the help of Sony who brought their mass production experience into the mix.
Writing on the notepad looks like it could be a pleasant experience despite the clear delay before characters appear. The resolution of the screen also helps to keep the text looking very crisp and allows you a lot of space to write without having to constantly move to a new sheet of digital paper.
Sony is carrying out a test release of the device at three universities in Japan soon, but has also promised a commercial release before the end of 2013. All that’s missing now is a price point. I’m really hoping Sony can come in lower than tablets, otherwise this digital notepad is going to be a hard sell.

WHAT ALL  A STUDENT WANTS AFTER HAVING THIS DIGITAL PAPER, OH YEAH.. A SUPER COMPUTER..

99$ FOR A SUPER COMPUTER. Yeah, Sounds like a dream but it soon will be true. Adapteva, Lexington, Massachusetts based company announced the kickstart of adapteva's Linux based $99 supercomputer, based on Parallel Computing. parallel computing is the process by which various calculations are performed at the same time, breaking up a larger problem into separate, smaller bits so those bits can be calculated simultaneously. Massively powerful supercomputers, such as IBM’s Blue Gene/P, employ parallel computing.
The Dubbed Parallela, Adapteva’s board is roughly the size of a credit card, similar to the Raspberry Pi, but packs a significantly more powerful punch. Parallela comes with 1GB of RAM, 2 USB 2.0 ports, a microSD slot, an HDMI connection, and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port. All of those specs are fairly standard for a little $99 computer nowadays, except along with the Parallela’s ARM A9 processor, it comes with a 64-core Epiphany Multicore Accelerator, which helps the board achieve around 90 gigaflops. For comparison, that amount of GFLOPS is equivalent to a 45GHz processor.
So yeah, for those who are looking for cheap powerful computing devices, I suggest you guys wait till December for this baby to kick in, though I don't think they will start selling it in India, but yeah we will import it anyway.