Can Kindle inspire educational technology?

[28.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic] As Amazon.com discreetly introduced a price cut of 10pc to its Kindle eBook reader from US$400 to US$360, it may be that this gadget is aiming at the wrong end of the market with high-end consumer electronics and should be looking to education. Last week OLPC (One Laptop per Child) founder Nicholas Negroponte unveiled a brand new Children’s Laptop, in fact it was not a laptop at all but a low cost eBook reader targeted at children’s education in