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Article: iPods for everyone: Duke University hopes free gear will help studies
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 28, 2004
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The Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. - Newly arrived Duke University freshmen got
something considerably snazzier than the usual Blue Devils T-shirts
and ball caps: Their goodie bags included a free iPod digital music
player engraved with the school's crest and the words "Class of
2008."
The university says the unique welcoming gifts, which Apple
Computer Inc. normally sells for $300, will be used as high-tech
educational tools to record lectures, capture scientific data and
play language-training recordings.
But it's not altogether clear to many that the university will be
able to carry through on its vow to make the gadgets more than a toy
for playing the latest from the likes of Coldplay ...