A simple handheld to bridge India’s digital divide.
Vijay Chandru places his pocketbook-sized computer gently on the table. The computer scientist from the Indian Institute of Science believes this gray box could be the future of personal computing in his country. Costing about the same as a handheld computer, Chandru’s “Simputer” has much of a PC’s functionality. And if he and his colleagues at PicoPeta Simputers are right, that combination of power and affordability will help make information technology far more accessible in the developing world.