Intel had some excellent stuff on display this year. For me, its Reader is among the best of them. It's a gadget that photographs a printed page, recognises the text, creates a portable text file and reads it back to you. Or, if you want to simply transfer the text file to another device, it has a USB port ready to serve.
It's aimed at visually impaired people. But the possibilities for lazy students 'researching' essays is obvious. Simply get one of the course textbooks, deploy the Reader on it and mix the paragraphs up in the hope that your striking lecturer doesn't notice.
There are, naturally, a few drawbacks. One is that it only guaranteed to recognise printed serif fonts. The other is that it currently costs almost $1,500 (€1,150).
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