I'd be curious about them, sure. On the other hand that $4000 car from
India (or was it $2000) turned out to be a total bust, so it will be
interesting to see if a $35 electronic device can be any better.
The only drawback, if the price is that reasonable, will be the
destruction-proof nature. If it can be broke, school students will
break it. That's sort of one of those "laws" of the universe, it seems.
David H. Bailey
On 1/27/2012 12:32 AM, Pabitra Saha wrote:
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> I have read somewhere that such devices were recently launched in India
> and China. As per exchange rates, their price was coming out to be as
> low as $ 35. If you want, I can search the links.
> PKS
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> On 26 Jan 2012, at 21:09, "David H. Bailey" <dhbailey52@comcast.net
> <mailto:dhbailey52@comcast.net>> wrote:
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>> On 1/26/2012 12:17 PM, pabitra saha wrote:
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>> > Old things do not vanish but just fade away.
>> > Where did pagers or film based cameras go?
>> > Horse drawn buggy is still there but it is a miniscule fraction of
>> > transportation.
>> > May be an Ibook reader costing less than $100 with full set of books
>> > from K-12 will be cost effective.
>>
>> That's definitely true -- such a device, if it were actually to be
>> produced and were actually indestructible at such a price, would be
>> wonderful and would probably begin to make inroads into the
>> paper-textbook world.
>>
>> Pagers are still widely used (I know a lot of doctors who still use
>> them) and film cameras are still used by many professional
>> photographers, but I get your point about how less common they are.
>>
>> I wonder if the text-book industry will go for such a device, however.
>> A printed textbook which now costs the school district $50-$100 yet only
>> costs $10 or less to print is a huge profit-engine. Electronic books
>> which can be sold with the device for $100 will eat into that huge
>> profit margin.
>>
>> Anything's possible and I certainly won't deny that your concept may
>> well become reality. However I've seen how tough students are on
>> textbooks, the paper kind that if dropped multiple times still continue
>> to be legible, and I have yet to see any electronic device which can
>> survive the same amount of rough handling and keep working.
>>
>> But they're a whole lot more reliable and able to take more kicks these
>> days so they may one day actually be able to survive a 10th grade hall
>> fight. :-)
>>
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>> David H. Bailey
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