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HP India to expand web access with Vayu Internet Device
The Internet is gradually seeping its way into homes across India, but there are many within the country who remain too poor to actually purchase a PC. Fortunately, HP India has just developed new technology known as the Vayu Internet Device, or VInD, that could dramatically lessen this gap. According to the Times of India, the company's new set top box will essentially allow users to access web content via traditional TVs, using standard remotes, rather than keyboards or mice. All they'd have to do is plug it in, subscribe to an internet service, and turn on their in-home televisions. The idea, of course, is to deepen web penetration across lower-income populations, as well as among the elderly, who may have difficulties manipulating more complex computer equipment. No word yet on when the VInD could hit the market, but the Times of India has a more comprehensive rundown, at the source link below.
HP India busts out line of "Fashiontronics"
All we really need to feel fabulous is our SPOT watch, head mounted display, and DualCor cPC under arm, but for the more discerning fashionistas, HP India is brewing up their new Fashiontronics line. As far as we can tell, this project is mainly comprised of garish colors, skins and cases for regular ol' HP products, but apparently premier Indian designer Suneet Varma is involved, so perhaps the designs are not totally lacking cred. The new skins will grace HP's desktop and laptop line, along with some new Bluetooth Jabra headsets, complete with Swarovski crystals, which are being introduced for HP's iPAQ range. All of this fits into HP's "The Computer is Personal Again" campaign, a worthwhile slogan not doubt, but which we must say looks quite silly slapped across one of those VoodooPC behemoths, as we ourselves recently witnessed.[Via Intelligent Cross-Sell]
