You’ll no doubt remember some of the duller moments at school where the most interesting use of time is spent, ahem, either creating or reading the graffiti on the edge of the desk you are sitting at. Well now the opportunity for some truly super graffiti or maybe even some amazing learning opportunity is about to make its mark. Anthea Linsett reports on a new type of learning platform (if you’ll excuse the pun) in the Guardian.

'Star Trek' style computer desks

At IE Design we’re passionate about interactive education and this medium certainly provides an interesting design challenge for the future - is it more than just an interactive whiteboard on a table, and if so, how should content and applications be designed to be used on it?