developing nations

11.23.09

Humanitarian Tech

Adjustable eyeglasses and smarter stoves for developing nations

By Cliff Kuang Posted 03.11.2009 at 1:53 pm 1 Comment

Elastic Eyesight: For the 314 million people around the world with blurry vision, just put on a pair of Joshua Silver’s AdSpecs and inject light-bending silicon oil into the plastic lenses until the world comes back into focus. Since winning a POPULAR SCIENCE Best of What’s New Award in 2000, Silver has been perfecting his $20 adjustable-prescription specs and, with help from the U.S. military, has handed out 20,000 pairs around the world.

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First OLPC Review: All in a Kid’s Eyes

By Dave Prochnow Posted 12.13.2007 at 11:21 am 0 Comments

Well, the first review of the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child initiative has been published. Remarkably, this BBC-sponsored review was performed by a real live child. Although written by his father, Rory Cellan-Jones, the meat of this matter is supplied by his son, Rufus Cellan-Jones. Whats your take on supplying XO laptops to developing nations for developing the minds of their youth? Do you have firsthand experience with an XO laptop? If so, please post your observations in our comments section. —Dave Prochnow

(Image: OLPC.ORG)

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