iSlate for the Children of India a Solar Powered Tablet

iSlate is a new solar powered tablet PC that aimed for the rural students of India. This tablet developed by researchers at the Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), along with partnership of Houston's Rice University and Villages for Development and Learning Foundation (ViDAL), an NGO in India. The tablets pc are most demanding technology this time and Indian is the one of the most appealing marking for it. Earlier many other low cost tablet announced in India which started with the Rs. 1,600 and aimed to college students.

iSlate is a solar powered tablet for younger school kids. The iSlate being designed for rural Indian kids. iSlate can prove to be a boon for Indians, specially the rural people.
It is designed to be an electronic notepad, especially useful in areas where schools don't have electricity. The chips inside that allow the tablet to be solar powered are in development by two associations. One is the Institute of Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics (ISAID) at NTU and Switzerland's Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology. The chips will be similar to those in solar powered calculators.
The first of the iSlates will be tested in Mohd. Hussainpalli village, near Hyderabad. Rajeswari Pingali, President, ViDAL said, "The iSlate can help bring the marvels of technology into thousands of rural schools and contribute to an improved learning experience."


There's no information about the cost and the specification of this tablet. 

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