Sharp’s 60″ LCD Blackboard Makes Me Wish to Teach In a college of the longer term [Blackboards]

Sharp’s 60″ PN-L601B Blackboard, announced today in Japan, ditches the SMART Board’s projector in lieu of a 1,920×1,080, LED-backlit LCD display. It’s almost awesome enough to make me need to draw sentence diagrams for Catcher Within the Rye.

Teaching once looked like a potentially-noble, probably-miserable future profession, before the allure of high tech blog world drew me in. But Sharp’s new LCD Blackboard, a step beyond the SMART Boards of yesteryear, soups up the school room enough to make me feel a faint yearning to instruct.

The PN-L601B, on the way to go on sale in Japan at the top of the month for $11,700, lets educators or businesspeople or whoever else write on top of scanned images with highly accurate handwriting recognition. Each of the work done on the display, which are erased at any time, is recorded on a PC via USB, so your classroom’s painstaking diagramming and doodling shall be preserved for posterity. [Crunchgear]

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