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Innovations from Simputer and PicoPeta

Two girl students learn from the Simputer

From the world's first commercial installation of Simputers: school girls in Chhattisgarh learn from their Simputers

 
A worldwide web browser on the Simputer

The Simputer's web browser displays the Google search engine

 

SIMPUTER INNOVATIONS

1. Features: The Simputer is one of the world's first handheld computers to have...
  • Text-to-speech capability in nearly all the world's languages (currently supported: English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada)
  • Native display capability in non-English languages languages
  • Integrated SmartCard reader
  • Integrated modem
  • Grid-based character entry system (Tapatap)
  • Integrated Speakers and Microphone

2. Technology: One of world's first handheld computers to...

  • Run on the GNU/Linux OS
  • Support Perl/Tcl/Tk programming
  • Support X-Windows
  • Have native FTP and Telnet clients
  • Have three-tier architecture for applications, with an XML-based presentation tier (IML)

3. Social/Business

  • Inventors recipients of the first Dewang Mehta award given by the Ministry of IT (Govt. of India) for innovation in IT
  • World's first Community Digital Assistant
  • Named by New York Times as the world's most important invention of 2001
  • World's first hardware to be released under a GPL-like license (SGPL)

PICOPETA INNOVATIONS

  • Author of Malacca, the world's most advanced interface for handhelds

  • - World's first interface that allows annotation of screens
    - Features a full SmartCard Emulator

  • World's first company exclusively devoted to providing hardware and software solutions based on the Simputer
  • World's first commercial deployment of Simputers (schools in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh)
  • Named by MIT's Technology Review as one of 7 hottest academic start-ups of 2001
  • First WYSIWYG authoring tool for the Simputer
  • World's first handheld computer to receive a digital radio broadcast


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