$35 Made-in-India Tablet Computer

The sleek looking device, a cross between iPad and tablet PC and charged by an equally sleeker solar panel is designed by experts at IIT, and IISc, Bangalore. The upper price limit for the device is pegged at $35. The low cost device which runs Linux, is being readied for production. The motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory and touch screen display. While $35 is pretty impressive, even for a nation that is known for cutting costs, the aim is to bring the cost down to just $10. Based on Open Source, the device does not have a hard-drive. It can not only support video-web conferencing facility, but also boasts of several other latest features -- multimedia content viewer (pdf, docx, ods, adp, xls, jpeg, gif,png, bmp, odt, zip, AVCHD, AVI, AC3), searchable Pdf reader, unzip tool for unzipping files, computing capabilities such as Open Office, SciLab for printing support, media player capable of playing streamed along with stored media files, USB port etc.