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Right now, you can use an iPod nano to boot in to Linux - and more is on the way... Students at Eastside Preparatory School in Kirkland, Wash., are getting class materials in a new way this year: on a tiny flash-memory drive that plugs into a computer's USB port. Small enough to wear on a necklace, this "digital backpack" can hold textbooks, novels, plays, study aids, the dictionary, graphing-calculator software -- almost anything, really. [via] Link.
News from the Future: Flash drives, the new PC?
Right now, you can use an iPod nano to boot in to Linux - and more is on the way... Students at Eastside Preparatory School in Kirkland, Wash., are getting class materials in a new way this year: on a tiny flash-memory drive that plugs into a computer's USB port. Small enough to wear on a necklace, this "digital backpack" can hold textbooks, novels, plays, study aids, the dictionary, graphing-calculator software -- almost anything, really. [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 14, 2005 10:24 AM
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