Preview into India’s Answer to the iPad
Now, out of India, resembling an iPad yet only 1/14th the cost, a new basic touch screen tablet for students, coming into production by 2011.
The Linux operating system-based computer is to be the latest in a string of the “world’s cheapest” innovations to hit the market from India.
Co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, in 2005, unveiled a prototype of a $100 laptop for children in the third world. Well, India rejected this idea as too expensive and embarked on a multiyear effort to develop a less expensive option of their own.
Negroponte’s laptop ended up costing about $200, though in May his nonprofit association,
