Smart Gadgets for Students

Author: Jennifer

October 16, 2008

It takes more than a pocket calculator to outfit the average student today. There are all kinds of gadgets on the market that make the process of having to do things lik e tapea lecture that much easier. Mundane chores such as printing off a big essay are also made a little easier by the technology that is now available.
For instance you can’t expect to get through school without a printer as few professors nowadays will let you email them an assigned essay. If you must get a printer makes sure it is one of the incredibly cheap combination scanner, printer and fax unites that are all the rage nowadays.
These combo fax/printer/scanner/copier multi-taskers are actually down to as low as fifty bucks on some sites that have them from sale. Hp, which has been making copier since they have been invented make s a very high quality one for just a hundred bucks. It’s called the HP Photosmart C5280. It prints up to 24 pages a minute in color and also prints photos and cards. It also has the ability to print directly onto CDs and DVDs. This versatile printer is also compatible with both Macs and PCs.
The Leapfrog Fly Fusion Pentop Computer helps you transfer anything that you write, draw or scrawl onto your computer for safekeeping. This way you can always archive the notes you take in class so you can study them later. It costs about eighty dollars which is quite reasonable for a device that is going to help you stay so organized. This pen can also record voices, perform math calculations and hold a CD’s worth of MP3s for you to listen to while you are working. In fact it is as close to a miracle as ever was invented in terms of being tiny, entertaining and completely useful.
The latest fad when it comes to recording lectures is to use a tiny MP3 player that also records rather than the usual bulky digital recorder. The MP3 should work fine as long as the lecture hall that you are using it to record in is not too large.
A machine that falls into this category is the tiny 8GB Creative Zen V Plus which is about 200 dollars at U.S. Creative is only the size of a Tic-Tac box but it cans store over four thousand songs, diplay videos and photos on its tiny 1.5 inch screen and also tape dozens of hours of lectures into its Flash memory. It also has a built in FM radio with over 32 stations and a line in jack to copy music from another source without the need for a computer so you can amuse yourself while doing something completely boring like scanning the pages of a textbook with your new scanner/printer/copier/fax machine.


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