When you think of the Simputer, the low-cast, Linux-based handheld device, do you see images of farmers, fields and cows? Then you have been laboring an inaccurate public image, according to the ...

We’d be impressed if anyone remembered this, but the very first non-test post on Gizmodo was about the Simputer, a handheld computer designed to be used by the world’s rural poor. At the time ...

See privacy policy. When the prototype was first announced two years ago by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the Simputer captured imaginations across the world. It was ...

Scientific American reviews the Simputer, a handheld that is aimed at the world’s poor rather than at corporate executives: “We envisage that a village might club together to buy one,” notes ...

An Indian group hopes to change that image with the Simputer, a device designed to bring portable computing and the information age to developing countries. The Simputer Trust, a group of ...

Sitting in the palm of my hand, the Simputer, emerging from the tech city of Bangalore, India, has generated a mix of hope and pessimism that few hardware products from India ever have. But will the ...

The word 'Simputer' is an acronym for 'simple, inexpensive and multilingual people's computer'. What is a Simputer? The word 'Simputer' is an acronym for 'simple, inexpensive and multilingual ...

BANGALORE, India -- The Simputer -- a cheap, handheld computer developed by Indian scientists -- promised a technology boost to the Third World's poor when it was introduced more than a year ago.

The Comet is a blend of Raspberry Pi, Simputer and Project Ara with a hint of Game Boy Its standout feature is the use of ...

BANGALORE, India (AP) -- The Simputer, a cheap, handheld computer developed by Indian scientists, promised a technology boost to the Third World's poor when it was introduced more than a year ago.