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October 11, 2011

Low-Cost Tablet Runs on Three Watts of Power

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By Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review

Designed to teach math to students in poor countries, the device will be the first to use a new energy-efficient computing strategy. After a year of testing in a remote village in India, researchers are ready to scale up production of an ultra-low-power $35 tablet called the I-slate. The I-slate is designed to teach math and other subjects to students whose schools lack electricity or to students who don’t have access to teachers at all. The device will enter full-scale production next year, and will be the first device to apply a low-power technology called probabilistic CMOS (complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor) to achieve a longer battery life.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38803/?p1=A1

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