Arjun Singh, Union Minister HRD, unveiled a $10 laptop at Tirupati.

“S K Sinha, joint secretary in the ministry for education, giving a demonstration of the device which is smaller than the normal laptop, said that it will need some more fine-tuning. He said the laptop is expected to reach the market in about six months.”

The laptop has 2 GB onboard memory with wireless Internet connectivity. To make it useful for the students, especially in the rural areas, the scientists have made it low power consuming gadget.

Darned Thrilling, Interesting and so on.

But hey, thats a ruddy Rs. 500.

So let me add “shocking” to the above adjectives.

I get a measly scientific calculator or a pen drive today for that price. So is a combo like that on offer? A scientific cal with higher processing capabilities? And say, maybe adding some text, sporting some images on standard VGA and so on?

I’ll be waiting to know more, see more, read more and hear more.

And if this 10$ episode happens, really and truly, I’ll sponsor 100 laptops for a municipal school

Hats off anyways to a team and people that dared dream and convert it into reality.