Look what HP Labs has developed

[Deja Q]

in India!

http://news.zdnet.com/2300-9584_22-6058723-1.html


HP Labs India's Gesture Keyboard debuted two weeks ago and sells for about $50. The keyboard caters to two languages--Hindi and Kannada, the state language--but the company said it will develop software for all 14 national dialects of India.

HP believes this technology will lower the barriers for many people to get access to the vast amount of data online that the government and universities have contributed.

And it's only $50!

Dayum!

And at any given Indian IT worker's salary, it'll take 'im more than half a week to be able to afford one! Never mind the price of the actual PC...

Of course, any gestures I would give it would be limited to one or two...



HP Labs India also demonstrates Printcast, a technology for porting encoded content files alongside broadcasts, so viewers can print material they've seen on TV. Many Indian children and adults get an education through distance learning TV programs developed by the government, and HP's Printcast would let teachers, homemakers or community organizations print supplemental transcripts of the programs. The technology embeds content into an MPEG 2 file, which is then delivered to a device that can unwrap the data and send it to an attached printer.

Good for them. What happened to Americans learning? Or are we aren't as worthy as fresh fertizer formed from fawns? Maybe that is why more people are wasting their lives with video games these days... they've stopped caring about themselves, which is understandable given the actions going on by those in power over the last several years... What a way to run a society... "society". Of course, the same people "running" society are racking up big-ass debts, so they don't care much about themselves either.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Maybe they can make one for Americans so that liberals can understand

the primitive dialect coming from the conservatives? And conservatives can learn critical thinking?

[Deja Q]

2. I doubt it. Remember, an educated populace isn't a profitable one.