Tiny USB-Sized PC Offers 1080p HDMI Output

[ddabbs]

If you're interested in ICT solutions for the developing world, you should check out & support the Jhai Foundation. http://jhai.org/technology/jhai-pc.php

Their systems have been in development for much longer, are field-tested in Lao PDR and recently India and offer capabilities meant to support a village or number of families. Interesting work and approach.

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[Blessedman]

Hmmm in a $188 laptop, I imagine the core to be about $25. Screen $75. Case/keyboard $50. Battery $20. Power brick $20. So he took the core from the $188 laptop and said hey this is genious... Not very impressed.

 

[fir_ser]

Maybe this device could be combined with a cheap e-ink screen so it could be more useful.

 

[craighay]

I want an earring made from one of these.

 

[tokenz]

[citation][nom]someguynamedmatt[/nom]A USB computer isn't going to be of any use to people who are dead, dying, or otherwise in critical health and living conditions.[/citation]

Really, you dont think this would help out tremendously in the treatment of diseases? Cause there isnt a single computer in our hospitals. Nope everything is pen and paper. Need to figure out a complex calculation for dosage? Better get out that pen and paper. Need to consult another doctor? pen and paper.

 

[blurr91]

Kids from 3rd world nations could earn a living building these things for the affulent west.

 

[Guest]

Anything to help educate people and make information accessible is a good thing.

 

[Guest]

It's amazing that people are so negative that they'll shit all over the idea of a $25 computer. And, by the way, developing/"3rd world" countries aren't just full of people in straw huts. Reducing the price of computers will get them into a lot more hands than they are now.

This is only a good thing.

 

[Guest]

Another way to suck the Earth's resources in the name 'helping people'. The huge corps that gain from the technology present in this usb computer are the very ones that are ravaging the third-world countries in the first place. So by buying these they gain more power and do more damage.