Intel's convertible Classmate in action

Folded into tablet mode, the Classmate's touchscreen responds to use with a normal stylus, or fingers.

Intel has surrounded the Classmate with software and services from partners under an overall brand, Intel Learning Series. This ecosystem includes peripherals, accessories and software for general education and administration, or for specific subject learning.

This picture shows optics software from a physics package produced by Algoryx. Here, Algoryx chief executive Kenneth Bodin is adjusting an experiment to reproduce a well-known album cover, using a stylus and touch input.

Other parts of the Algoryx product, available online as the 2D sandbox 'Phun', allow students to build models of physical structures such as trucks. The Classmate's tilt sensor can then experiment with their properties in motion.