SMARTBOARD?

is it practical to use smartboard now? or is it for future when the cost may go down becasue one of the reason we cant use technology because of the cost to acquire the hardware and another reason is most of us just dont like learning new things.... the question is are we willing to learn this quite complicated 'things'... even for a tech-savvy guy like me i found that it is quite hard to fully understand this new things. to ensure that i can use smartboard there must be a lot of opportunity for me to use it... however, the chance to use it is minimal because we have large class.... so, maybe in the next few weeks i will be able to use the smartboard effectively...