Kapil Sibal, India's Minister for Human Resource Development, unveils a prototype tablet on Thursday (22nd July 2010)

India on Thursday unveiled a prototype tablet computer that would sell for a mere 1,500 rupees, or $35, with the price may dropping even further as R&D efforts continue.

Kapil Sibal, the country’s Minister for Human Resource Development, showed off the super-cheap touch-screen device in New Delhi as part of a push to provide high-quality education to students across the country. The tablet also comes with a solar-power option that could make it more feasible for rural areas.

The Linux-based computer at first glance resembles an Apple iPad and features basic functions you’d expect to see in a tablet–a Web browser, multimedia player, PDF reader, Wi-Fi, and video conferencing ability. It has 2GB of RAM (but no hard disk, instead using a memory card) and USB ports and could be available to kids from primary school up to the university level as early as next year.

Students from several branches of the Indian Institute of Technology co-designed motherboards for the computer, which the ministry would like to see dropping to $20 or much lesser

This device is not yet named.

Source: cnet.com

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