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Rise Of The Machines

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

India just created a touchscreen “laptop” that will sell for $35 and is seeking large-scale manufacturers to mass produce it, targeting student populations worldwide. The device looks like a bulky iPad but costs a whole lot less.

The fully functional prototype includes motherboard, processor, RAM, internet connection facility, memory, display and touch screen capability. The base model will also include PDF reader, internet browsers and video conferencing facilities, and the prototype model comes with modular expansion capabilities to allow students to easily upgrade it

Also mentioned is the intention of getting the price from $35 to $20 and eventually $10.  If there was ever a time to sell that student bookstore stock you’ve been holding on to, now’s the time.  We all knew the day would come when consumer electronics would reach the pricepoint of ubiquity, but I think most people expected to see laptops drop to the $99 price range before plumetting all the way to “Starbucks gift card” territory.  Leave it to India to drag the planet kicking and screaming into the future of efficiency – first the cheapest car on the planet, now the cheapest laptop.  In the dictionary under “outsourcing” I think there’s a hotlink to India.

It’s an exciting time to be in the Technology business – and realizing that India has simply dropped the pebble in the water with this announcement – the ripples we’ll experience in the following 6, 8, 12 months from every major laptop manufacturer will be intriguing to see play out on store shelves across America.  Question: does India manufacture flat-screen TVs?

The State of Telepresence

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Business-class Telepresence Environment

A telepresence system is a high-end videoconferencing system and service usually employed by enterprise-level corporate offices. Telepresence conference rooms use state-of-the art room designs, video cameras, displays, sound-systems and processors, coupled with high-to-very-high capacity bandwidth transmissions.

Typical uses of the various technologies described above include videocalling or videoconferencing on a one-to-one, one-to-many or many-to-many basis for personal, business, educational, deaf Tele-Relay and tele-medical, diagnostic and rehabilitative use or services. New services utilizing videocalling and videoconferencing, such as personal videocalls to inmates incarcerated in penitentiaries, and videoconferencing to resolve airline engineering issues at maintenance facilities, are being created or evolving on an on-going basis