[BloodFalcon @ Mar 31st 2007 9:16AM]

I for one am suprised that LCD screens, laptops and televisions haven't totally obsoleted the wasteful nature of paper production.

I like to see innovations like this because I believe digital media should ultimately take the place of paper. Instead of a huge damn textbook, students could walk around with nothing more than a PSP and a 1 Gigabyte memory stick. (the only dissadvantage being the power requirements, howeverin a classroom/hoom, they can plug in)

With PSP's wifi, new content can be added as required.

To those who say, you can't stop em from playing games, all you'd need do is install a patch that rejectects Game UMD's. Only the ultimate hackers could crack it - kids aren't that clever.

The reason I'd think that some are resisting the movement to digital media in the classrooms is because they'd lose millions (publishing contracts, paper shipments, paper mills, etc).

[Jamar @ Mar 31st 2007 11:01AM]

But that one hacker could publish it all over the internet. The more ideal way is to create a device only for reading (Sony Librie/Panasonic Words Gear, both of which have articles about them on this site). That, or make the UMD rejection part of a custom firmware and lock them out of upgrades. Also because after school isn't really any of the school's business they could set the software to allow UMDs (and ISOs- I'll admit that I use them because I saw first-hand how easy it is to break a UMD) after school hours.