Keepod

[Quarky]

Any views on the functionality of this device? : http://keepod.org/

A USB with an operating system based on Android 4.4. I guess it is an equivalent to a Linux distro.

Intended for the developing world, it is cheap and designed to be run on any old PC. But whether it might have use in our homes or workshops?

[french frank]

Any views on the functionality of this device? : http://keepod.org/

A USB with an operating system based on Android 4.4. I guess it is an equivalent to a Linux distro.

Intended for the developing world, it is cheap and designed to be run on any old PC. But whether it might have use in our homes or workshops?

I read your post just after I'd seen the BBC story. They said it was important but it was a bit beyond me to understand why ... :-)

[Quarky]

I read your post just after I'd seen the BBC story. They said it was important but it was a bit beyond me to understand why ... :-)

As I understand it, a village in Africa may have one very old PC between several hundred habitants. A Keepod dongle converts the PC to a more modern computing device, which is personal and secure to the owner of the dongle. Distributing dongles to each of the inhabitants, permits each inhabitant to have their own computer, which is isolated from the others.

That's as I understand it, but I await views from the technocrats!

[french frank]

Ah, I understand that - a kind of portable computer innards.

[Don Petter]

Ah, I understand that - a kind of portable computer innards.

An offally apt simile.