Need a little help getting through your next big math exam? MicroBlink
has an app that could help you study more effectively -- perhaps too effectively. Its newly unveiled PhotoMath
for iOS and Windows Phone (Android is due in early 2015) uses your
smartphone's camera to scan math equations and not only solve them, but
show the steps involved.
Officially, it's meant to save you time
flipping through a textbook to check answers when you're doing homework
or cramming for a test. However, there's a concern that this could
trivialize learning -- just because it shows you how to solve a problem
doesn't mean that the knowledge will actually sink in. And if teachers
don't confiscate smartphones at the door, unscrupulous students could
cheat when no one is looking.
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