(Reuters) – India has come up with the world’s cheapest “laptop,” a touch-screen computing device that costs $35.

India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled the low-cost computing device that is designed for students, saying his department had started talks with global manufacturers to start mass production.

“We have reached a (developmental) stage that today, the motherboard, its chip, the processing, connectivity, all of them cumulatively cost around $35, including memory, display, everything,” he told a news conference.

He said the touchscreen gadget was packed with Internet browsers, PDF reader and video conferencing facilities but its hardware was created with sufficient flexibility to incorporate new components according to user requirement.

Sibal said the Linux based computing device was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from 2011 but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and ultimately to $10.

The device was developed by research teams at India’s premier technological institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science.

India spends about three percent of its annual budget on school education and has improved its literacy rates to over 64 percent of its 1.2 billion population but studies have shown many students can barely read or write and most state-run schools have inadequate facilities.

(Reporting by Reuters Television, Editing by Belinda Goldsmith) – www.reuters.com

Naşte o femeie şi (aşa cum e obiceiul) vin ursitoarele…niste babe din sat.
Prima ursitoare : îi doresc copilului să aibă bani, să aibă noroc, să fie deştept şi educat …
Copilul : îngâ îngâ …
A 2-a ursitoare : îi doresc să fie dotat, să aibă multe femei şi să se-nsoare cu cea mai frumoasă femeie …..
Copilul : îngâ îngâ ….
A 3-a ursitoare, văzând că toate i-au urat de bine, zice: îi doresc să aibă numai femei cu centură de castitate … să văd unde bagă chestia aia mare …
La care copilul : îngâ .. îngâ … în gâtu’ nepoata-tii !

La farmacie vine o batrana de 80 de ani cu o reteta. Farmacistul o intreaba:
- Reteta este pentru dvs.?
- Da.
-Stiti ca este o reteta de anticonceptionale? Acestea nu va fac nimic.
- Ba da, ma fac sa dorm linistita.
- Cum asa?
- Iau cate o pastila in fiecare dimineata, o pisez si o dizolv in paharul cu suc al nepoatei mele de 16 ani. Asa dorm eu linistita!