Educational Gadgets Category

Borders has filed for bankruptcy and liquidation, and its online assets are now being taken over by Barnes & Noble. If you’re a Borders.com user, you can get a free membership, discounts to B&N and $25 toward your purchase of a Nook Color with a paid membership.

300 students and faculty members will be receiving Lenovo ThinkPads in a new pilot program at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. This seems to be a move away from using the Apple iPad which has maintained a stronghold in the education scene.

MIT has opened a learning center called the “Center for Mobile Learning.” They plan on using the facility to learn and study mobile technology that will allow people to study from anywhere. Subjects such as location aware apps, mobile data collection, and even augmented reality are on the proverbial plate. [...]

Microsoft has recently announced that its Reader System is at end-of-life. With the popularity of e-book readers and tablet computers, is it high time for Microsoft Reader to call it quits?

A $5 million stimulus funding will allow the distribution of new MacBook Air units to 2,200 students from Owensboro, Kentucky public schools next school year. These students – from grades 5 to 12 – are not the only ones getting new laptops. Teachers and school staff already got theirs, and [...]

Remember the $100 laptop that the developers at OLPC have promised? The concept of cheap notebook computers and tablets has met with commercial success in netbooks, and Chinese ODMs have also come up with cheap tablets. But OLPC’s upcoming design has extra features.

Digital technology has gone leaps and bounds in other industries, such as the music market, where a big chunk of purchases today are digital. Colleges across the US want students to save money on books, and E-textbooks might just have the same effect on the textbook market.

Most of us techies probably prefer to take notes on notebooks, netbooks or smartphones. I know, my handwriting hasn’t had much practice and it’s been degrading since I learned to touch-type. Still, ball point pens are an essential part of your life if you write checks and still write old-fashioned [...]

Once upon a time when a device got released it pretty much had its primary function and that was about it. Now a days, with the advancements of technology even a seemingly simple device can have  a plethora of different uses thanks to some software tweaks. Just look at those [...]

The latest eReader in the market from Ectaco is officially available for pre-order. The Ectacto Jetbook Mini eReader can be pre-ordered from the company site for only $99 and is also expected to be officially out by October 1. Though this eReader may be of a lesser-known origin, it does [...]