- From: Mark Magennis <mark@frontend.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:22:57 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi folks, Here's a story about a new Indian invention, the Simputer, that tackles two accessibility problems - illiteracy and poverty. It's a handheld device that can browse the Internet and turn English text into Hindi, Kannada or Tamil speech. It can be expanded to other languages too. It will cost about 9000 Indian Rupees which is about 190 U.S. Dollars, 220 Euro or 140 British pounds. A single Simputer can be shared by individual users who plug in their own smartcard which cost only about 50 Rupees each. The smartcard contains all the personal information needed to customise the Simputer to that user. The URL is http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4218095,00.html Mark
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