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    • World’s cheapest tablet is just $35 for students in India

      By Taylor Hatmaker, Tecca | Today in Tech – Thu, Oct 6, 2011

      It may not be feature-rich, but this tablet could make waves in the classroom

      A few companies are putting out budget-level iPad competitors, but it's unlikely that anything can touch the all-time low price tag of a new tablet in India. Called the Aakash (Hindi for "sky"), the tablet is part of a pilot program that will gift the little slates to 1,000,000 Indian students. Students who don't receive a tablet on the house can buy one for a dirt cheap $35.

      The $35 rock-bottom pricing scheme is part of a subsidized government initiative, but the tablet's true price is only $15 more. Naturally, the feature set isn't exactly top of the line, though it does sport two USB ports, which is more than the iPad can say. The Android tablets feature a resistive 7" LCD screen, up to three hours of battery life, and not a whole lot in the way of processing power.

      But advanced fetaures aren't the point. The initiative seeks to put computers into the hands of as many Indian youths as possible, where they will be used as a supplement to traditional coursework. Currently, only 8% of

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    • Lightweight, renewable, ninja-approved

      Auto makers are constantly on the hunt for lighter, stronger material to build cars out of, because the lighter the vehicle, the less energy it takes to make it move. Some solve the weight problem by making tiny one-seater cars, and others opt for completely green pedal-power. Now EV-tinkerer Greg Abbott — also known as Reverend Gadget — is working on a new idea: bamboo.

      The resilient, lightweight grass has been used in Asia for thousands of years, for everything from construction scaffolding to musical instruments. More recently, surfboards made from woven bamboo composite have been making waves in Hawaii, and that got Abbott thinking. Instead of fiberglass, which is strong but heavy, or carbon fiber, which is strong but expensive, could cars be constructed out of bamboo composite and vegetable resin?

      It's still just an idea right now, but with its high strength-to-width ratio, highly renewable quick-growing bamboo is an appealing construction material. The light weight and high

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    • 9 things you didn’t know about the life of Steve Jobs

      By Taylor Hatmaker, Tecca | Today in Tech – Thu, Oct 6, 2011

      Steve Jobs leans against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/Corbis)
      For all of his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure — even in his death. Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer — a disease that ultimately claimed him on Wednesday, at the age of 56.

      While the CEO and co-founder of Apple steered most interviews away from the public fascination with his private life, there's plenty we know about Jobs the person, beyond the Mac and the iPhone. If anything, the obscure details of his interior life paint a subtler, more nuanced portrait of how one of the finest technology minds of our time grew into the dynamo that we remember him as today.

      1. Early life and childhood
      Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was adopted shortly after his birth and reared near Mountain View, California by a couple named Clara and Paul Jobs. His adoptive father — a term that Jobs

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