Why Learning Tools?

This kind of stuff in human-computer interfaces keeps me "turned on" in Educational Technology. Jefferson Y. Han has a pretty cool demo video of the work he and his colleagues at NYU have been doing, and while the demo is currently an "inside a dark room" thing, and my work is all about the geocultural environment, I can certainly envision this sort of mutli-touch technology in a portable format -- maybe not mobile-phone sized, but certainly clipboard-sized. Maybe the next generation in notebooks could look like those leatherbound portfolio clipboards, but open up to two flexible 9" x 12" touch screens.

For the software side of it, the sky is the limit. The 3-minute video has a number of demos, and I can think of several more -- like a good game of solitaire! (kidding on that, but it'd make a great table-top scrabble game).