Google Docs Works the Interns for Improvements

This is a great addition for students.

Google Docs, and online option to Microsoft Office, has added a fairly powerful equation editor this summer, super/subscripts, among other improvements. I've used GDocs with students many times, and for other personal uses as well. It may be a good option for students who don't have Office available. Best of all, it's free, and you do not need a Google account to access it.

Read more about the equation editor and summer improvements here

MIT Students Take Pictures from Space for <$150

Two MIT students have captured images from space on a severe budget of $150. Perhaps the most impressive part is they did it entirely with off the shelf items.

Gaining over 17 miles in altitude, they were high enough to see the curvature of the earth, the darkness of space, and the intense cold associated with severe altitude. Impressive.

Check the details here.

Next Phase of Netbooks

EeePC is coming out with the next revolution of the netbook. Asus is about to release the Eee Keyboard. An introduction is here:




This device will eventually be perfect for students. A full size keyboard (the biggest complaint of netbooks thus far), this is also smaller, lighter, and more portable than a netbook. By providing a small touchscreen on the keyboard itself, students can sit in class, take notes with the full-size keyboard, monitoring on the small touch screen, then return home, hook up to a monitor, and you have a full size computer at home. No need for clouds, no need for a PC at home and a netbook for class, it's a valid, all in one solution.

Keys are going to be the battery life, reliability of an exposed keyboard (unless some type of hard case is provided, and reliability of the touchscreen on the side.

None the less, this is an exciting blend of a smartphone, netbook, and PC, all in one. Once again, Asus is leading the way.