Re: [IAEP] Humane Reader is a $20 8-bit PC for TVs

2010-07-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > C. Scott Ananian wrote on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:25:55 -0400 >> I suspect the inventors added up some prices and reduced by some >> arbitrary factor to include "volume".  My guesstimate says $20 for the >> electronics BOM alone, not includ

Re: [IAEP] Humane Reader is a $20 8-bit PC for TVs

2010-07-20 Thread Jecel Assumpcao Jr.
C. Scott Ananian wrote on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:25:55 -0400 > I suspect the inventors added up some prices and reduced by some > arbitrary factor to include "volume". My guesstimate says $20 for the > electronics BOM alone, not including all the other costs of > manufacturing. There are details in

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package > these files into .xol packages and these packages get installed into > the "Library," which is contained on the left hand side of the Browse > activity. Yes, you read th

Re: [IAEP] Humane Reader is a $20 8-bit PC for TVs

2010-07-20 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:18 PM, John Watlington wrote: > Its amazing how cheap you can make a laptop if you > leave out the RAM, battery, display, keyboard, networking, > processor, and plastic case. > > It is a much less developed version of AMD's 50x15 > terminal. That said, I do not believe t

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread Gary Martin
On 20 Jul 2010, at 19:33, "Reuben K. Caron" wrote: > There has been a lot of great progress with the Read and Get-Books > (IA) activities. However, we have neglected to think about how we can > better fit all of these pieces together. For instance, consider > deployments that would like to

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
On 20 July 2010 12:33, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > So what if we created a "Library Activity" > The activity would: > -Open a book from within the activity > -Highlight and annotate books > -List all of the books you have downloaded > -Allow you to search and download additional books from Feed Books

Re: [IAEP] Humane Reader is a $20 8-bit PC for TVs

2010-07-20 Thread John Watlington
Its amazing how cheap you can make a laptop if you leave out the RAM, battery, display, keyboard, networking, processor, and plastic case. It is a much less developed version of AMD's 50x15 terminal. Cheers, wad On Jul 20, 2010, at 6:21 AM, Kevin Cole wrote: > http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/2

[IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread Reuben K. Caron
There has been a lot of great progress with the Read and Get-Books (IA) activities. However, we have neglected to think about how we can better fit all of these pieces together. For instance, consider deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package these files into .xol

[IAEP] Humane Reader is a $20 8-bit PC for TVs

2010-07-20 Thread Kevin Cole
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/humane-reader-is-a-20-8-bit-pc-for-tvs/ We can't decide if this is a Smart idea or a Stupid idea in the grand scheme of things, but we love it just the same. Humane PC and its Humane Reader child are open source hardware projects with some seriously low-cost inte