Loren’s on a roll again recently with suggestions for Tableteers, UMPCeers, and other mobile PC users, including students and teachers in and out of schools.
He notes that search engines can calculate simple math problems. He posted on the 19th a simple demo app, written with Silverlight and a web service, that can take handwritten math equations, recognize them, format the problems sufficiently for Google, and then passes them off to Google to be solved. Hmmm, a calculator for students? Search engines become answer engines for a whole host of problems. Math being one problem type.
I especially think teachers and homeschoolers will find his activity book platform screenshots posted September 14 and 16 sufficient proof of concept demonstrations to plan classroom uses for them soon. On behalf of students and teachers, thanks, Loren, for your dedication to helping us learn more with state of the art mobile PCs and related equipment.