HP to Co-develop Mobile Digital Laboratory for Education Market

HP and Saltire Scientific are teaming to develop for the education market the Mobile Digital Laboratory (MDL) an easy-to-use, high-performance solution that allows secondary school mathematics and science students to collect and analyze real world data in real time.

The HP Mobile Digital Laboratory is ideal for mathematics and science teachers as they meet the challenges of curriculum reform. This is the latest innovation from HP™s Calculators division, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary in the handheld calculator market this year.

HP Mobile Digital Laboratory (MDL) highlights include:

• Intuitive and easy to use: Students maximize classroom learning time as they can start collecting and analyzing data immediately with virtually no set-up. Teachers save lesson planning time as they are no longer required to pre-determine experiment parameters for the desired outcome.
• Interactive, real-time data collection: Students are able to see a continuous stream of data and can pan, zoom in and capture datasets that look interesting as they happen
• Fast data collection: The MDL can read and graphically display more than 2,000 samples per second.
• Familiar analysis tools: MDL works seamlessly with the HP 39gs and 40gs Graphing Calculators™ standard statistical analysis tools so there is no need to learn a new toolset to analyze the collected data.
• Portable size: Data streamer hardware is up to 10 times smaller than traditional data loggers.
  
• Low-cost, high-performance solution: The affordable HP 39gs and 40gs Graphing Calculators boast advanced ARM processors that enable the calculators to work with the data streamer hardware.
  
• Variety of data types to analyze: A range of probes such as a microphone probe, light probe and gas pressure sensor will enable students to study phenomena such as the relationship between human voice pitch and the corresponding waveform frequency and amplitude, graphical representation of a flickering light and the inverse relationship between air volume and pressure.