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man-bear-pig on 19 January 2012
Andrespetmonkey said:
man-bear-pig said:

Great idea for those who have an ipad, but do they honestly expect schools to buy an ipad for each of their pupils? Or is it the pupils who will be buying them? Besides, I cant imagine schools allowing pupils to bring ipads into class as they could easily just be on the internet or playing games during class, unless they have a timed lock on using other apps or something..? Anyway, I want to see a video!

Not now ofcourse, and it doesn't have to be high-end tablets that schools buy, low spec tablets will be more than capable of running these kindoff things at ease in a couple years.

These could be in classes in the future, it will actually be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying shitloads of paper, books and textbooks, it would work a lot better and tablets with these capabilities will be dirt cheap in the near future, especially if bought in large numbers or if schools/universities/colleges got discounts. If it belongs to the school, they could easily manipulate the UI or the settings or whatever so it can only be used for what they want it to be used for, teachers would even be able to moniter screens (glad this isn't happening to me). 

Students could possibly write on them with a stylus if the device is accurate enough, that would also eliminate the need for exercise books. The only problem would be the increased electricity bills.


Not nessessarily, each of the devices could have a wind turbine attachment. I better get that idea patented...



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Andrespetmonkey on 19 January 2012
man-bear-pig said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
man-bear-pig said:

Great idea for those who have an ipad, but do they honestly expect schools to buy an ipad for each of their pupils? Or is it the pupils who will be buying them? Besides, I cant imagine schools allowing pupils to bring ipads into class as they could easily just be on the internet or playing games during class, unless they have a timed lock on using other apps or something..? Anyway, I want to see a video!

Not now ofcourse, and it doesn't have to be high-end tablets that schools buy, low spec tablets will be more than capable of running these kindoff things at ease in a couple years.

These could be in classes in the future, it will actually be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying shitloads of paper, books and textbooks, it would work a lot better and tablets with these capabilities will be dirt cheap in the near future, especially if bought in large numbers or if schools/universities/colleges got discounts. If it belongs to the school, they could easily manipulate the UI or the settings or whatever so it can only be used for what they want it to be used for, teachers would even be able to moniter screens (glad this isn't happening to me). 

Students could possibly write on them with a stylus if the device is accurate enough, that would also eliminate the need for exercise books. The only problem would be the increased electricity bills.


Not nessessarily, each of the devices could have a wind turbine attachment. I better get that idea patented...

Would work great in PE, doubt tablets would be very useful though



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man-bear-pig on 19 January 2012

Or they could have a giant hydroelectic turbine in the sewers below the schools which somehow charged the ipads wirelessly. I better get that idea patented too...



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

man-bear-pig on 19 January 2012

man-bear-pig said:

Or they could have a giant hydroelectic turbine in the sewers below the schools which somehow charged the ipads wirelessly. I better get that idea patented too...


Or, better yet, they could have a giant container housed beside the school toilets which collected all the faeces of the pupils, and charged all the ipads wirelessly using the gases released by the decomposing faeces...

@Pezus, i didnt think that was particularly cheap until i saw that thrax spends $150 per textbook!



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

superchunk on 19 January 2012

I wish tablets like this existed when I was in college. I hated textbooks. Their cost and weight.



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NiKKoM on 19 January 2012

f*ck me... setting the prices at 14.99 dolar max... and the books are Apple exclusive.. I know most costs is in the printing the books but this is ridiculous... what a gamechanger... this will be a lot of money for Apple...



 

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sethnintendo on 19 January 2012
superchunk said:
I wish tablets like this existed when I was in college. I hated textbooks. Their cost and weight.


I actually stole a decent amount of textbooks while in college.  While I don't steal anything anymore, I didn't feel any guilt from stealing overpriced textbooks that you couldn't sell back due to another edition coming out.



rocketpig on 19 January 2012

The more I think about this, the more my head spins. This is truly incredible stuff and not just for textbooks. I don't have the time now but I'm going to download iBooks author in the next few weeks and see how some of this techno-wizardry can be applied to my comic book. This changes everything.




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sethnintendo on 19 January 2012
rocketpig said:
The more I think about this, the more my head spins. This is truly incredible stuff and not just for textbooks. I don't have the time now but I'm going to download iBooks author in the next few weeks and see how some of this techno-wizardry can be applied to my comic book. This changes everything.


Isn't that a famous quote from a movie or something?  nvm.. I believe that phrase is just used a lot in marketing, etc..  Typed it into google and scrolled a little down and saw this... 

iPhone 4. This changes everything. Again.



NiKKoM on 19 January 2012
rocketpig said:
The more I think about this, the more my head spins. This is truly incredible stuff and not just for textbooks. I don't have the time now but I'm going to download iBooks author in the next few weeks and see how some of this techno-wizardry can be applied to my comic book. This changes everything.

Yeah me too.... it's a gamechanger.. if iBooks author is as handy as Pages and Keynote i'm expecting a really big shift.. some people at our office are gonne be fired if we, the graphic designers, don't need a programmer anymore for these interactive books.. the market will change rapidly for authors, no more small cuts, no more big publisher in between (which sometimes is bad, cause they check check and re-check the work) your book will always be on sale, no reprints, smaller risks, no huge investment etc etc... it's gonna be a long day in the office tommorrow when we discuss this stuff.. -_-"



 

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