Searching for the Aakash [Tools & Toys]

Early in January 2012, Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO of DataWind, a small computer company based in Montreal, told The Economic Times of India that advance orders for its 2500 rupee (about US $50) tablet computer had reached 1.4 million units in just two weeks-besting the record of Apple and its iPad. The tablet, dubbed the Aakash (Hindi for "sky"), had been promoted by the Indian government through a contract to DataWind as an ultralow-cost computer for the country\´s 1.2 billion citizens. We contacted IEEE Spectrum. Would it be interested in a review? Of course it would.