Technology news is abuzz with the low-cost laptop Sakshat developed by India. Costing $10 it beats hollow all other entries (like MIT’s XO) in the cheap computer segment. A joint project by scientists at the Vellore Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and the state-controlled Semiconductor Complex, the laptop has 2Gb of Ram and wireless connectivity.
While experts doubt the laptop will be using Microsoft software, sure to push up prices, the Indian spokesperson says the price works out to $20 (Rs 1000) but will come down with mass production.
The laptop is the centre piece of an ambitious Rs 46 billion e-learning programme to link 18,000 colleges and 400 universities across the country. A network of laptops from which students can access lectures, coursework and specialist help from anywhere in India, will ‘trigger a revolution in education’ reports The Guardian. Details of how things have been worked out so cheap are not yet out.
This may not be exactly energy-relevant news though we can bring in energy aspects. However, we would like to note here that the country and its scientists are capable of developing low-cost, revolutionary technology. The energy sector is looking for exactly that. Do let us know if you have heard of any research oriented towards energy, however small or big. We are interested.
PS: We now hear that 'it is neither a laptop nor costs $10'. More clarifications will follow for sure.
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That picture at in dot com is NOT the $0 Indian laptop. That picture is something totally different costing like $300 made by a company called Milead or something.
Anyways, why would you have a bunch of model bimbos showing off laptops for children's education.
In fact, there are no pictures of the Indian $0 laptop. I'm guessing it may be a pure bunch of hoax, vapourware that about 500 lazy blog writers just copied from one another without even stopping up to think for one second if this story about a $10 Indian laptop was joke.
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