Indian scientists has developed a $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, which would be on display in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh on February 3 when the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology is launched.
This $10 laptop project will be India’s answer to the $100 laptop of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Nicholas Negroponte, who was trying to hard sell the project to India. The $10 laptop has been developed by students of Vellore Institute of Technology, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore and IIT Madras, with public sector undertakings like the Semiconductor Complex.
“At this stage, the price is working out to be $20 but with mass production it is bound to come down,” R P Agarwal, secretary, higher education said. Apart from questioning the technology of $100 laptops, the main reason for HRD ministry's resistance to Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project was the high and the hidden cost that worked out to be $200.
It is hard to imagine anything like a laptop, or even a PDA, being made to sell at the equivalent of $10. But the main aim of this is for the Higher Education for all in India. There is no source as whether this will be available outside of India.
This $10 laptop project will be India’s answer to the $100 laptop of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Nicholas Negroponte, who was trying to hard sell the project to India. The $10 laptop has been developed by students of Vellore Institute of Technology, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore and IIT Madras, with public sector undertakings like the Semiconductor Complex.
“At this stage, the price is working out to be $20 but with mass production it is bound to come down,” R P Agarwal, secretary, higher education said. Apart from questioning the technology of $100 laptops, the main reason for HRD ministry's resistance to Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project was the high and the hidden cost that worked out to be $200.
It is hard to imagine anything like a laptop, or even a PDA, being made to sell at the equivalent of $10. But the main aim of this is for the Higher Education for all in India. There is no source as whether this will be available outside of India.
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