More proper implementation of multimedia and social networking tools is crucial. Just because you hand instructors tools does not guarantee that they intuitively know how to use them to communicate effectively to their target audience.
The device, likely to be called the iSlate, has no keyboard and allows users to watch TV shows and read online magazines. The explosion of legitimate digital content services, the rise of downloadable applications – fuelled by the iPhone – and the widespread availability of wireless broadband has created a market for a tablet PC that is more of a multimedia device than merely a "keyboardless" computer.
Speculation is rife that the Apple will release such a device, which has no keyboard and resembles a large iPhone, at an event on 26 January in San Francisco. Some technology bloggers have already christened the touchscreen device the iSlate after it emerged that Apple has registered the iSlate.com internet domain name.
Apparently, you can enter Barnes & Noble with a Nook and get on their network, and browse any e-book there for free.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114115466
Samsung has been working to deliver flexible displays for cellphones that will be significantly thinner than current LCD screens and allow for new form factors. But a big question for electronics makers will be how sturdy are these flexible displays? There’s only one way to answer that question and that’s with a hammer. ;)
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/samsung-flexible-oled/
It's nice to see a retailer go this hard with its digital signage efforts and pull something off we will all use as a positive reference case on what's possible.