For example, the OQO UMPC is also a PDA sized tablet PC the Apple eMate had the clamshell form factor of a laptop, but ran PDA software.

Handheld

A portable computer (discontinued) is a general purpose computer that can be easily moved from place to place, but cannot be used while in transit, usually because it requires some setting up and an AC power source.

Negroponte takes OLPC to Colombia

The backs of seats are often equipped with a fold down tray for eating, writing, or as a place to set up a portable computer, or a music or video player.

Late last year, India s government unveiled a handheld computer that will cost only 2,250 rupees (about 40). Aakash has a resistive seven inch touch screen, like Apple s iPad.

The country reportedly became the first in the world where every primary school child received a free laptop on 13 October 2009 as part of the Plan Ceibal (Education Connect).

Thirty one countries in total are involved, and in the case of Uruguay, half the children already have them, and by the middle of 2009, every single child in Uruguay will have a laptop a little green laptop.

The XO 1 is the first laptop to have been awarded an EPEAT Gold level rating.

A mobile Internet device (MID) is a multimedia capable mobile device providing wireless Internet access.

Kwabena Boahen on a computer that works like the brain

The receiver is about the size of a cell phone and can operate up to five feet from the transmitter.

So in the three years since I talked at TED and showed a prototype, it's gone from an idea to a real laptop.

And these kids had their laptops. But it was really what spirited this, plus the influence of Joe and others. We started One Laptop per Child.

Actually I didn t even have a computer or the slightest idea of when I would ever have one, for my mum was a seamstress after all.

There's a voting system if one computer is not agreeing with the other three, it's kicked out of the system.

the use of browser based Internet services, from a handheld mobile device, such as a smartphone or a feature phone, connected to a mobile network or other wireless network.

I don't know whether the idea of one computer, one child makes any sense. Here's the computer of the future, because this screen is already there and they're ubiquitous.

As a result, floppy drives became uncommon in desktop personal computers since about 2000, and were dropped from many laptop systems even earlier.

I tried this with a Dell computer and gave up after repeated attempts.

In Korea, every household has more than one computer and students use them for their own homework.

A Windows 7 based Physical Computing PC built using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio.

And he hadn't seen a computer before we did this movie. We taught him Photoshop and yeah, we can play it.

There's no manual. This is exactly what you expect, especially if you haven't interacted with a computer before.

This is a quote, actually, from Alan Turing In 30 years, it will be as easy to ask a computer a question as to ask a person.

It works on every computer, every web browser, or minus, minus, minus to get smaller again.

By the late 1980s, however, most analog simulations were run on conventional digital computers that emulate the behavior of an analog computer.

The organization provides each employee with computer hardware as needed, but computer equipment may only be used by the employee to which it is assigned.

Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created . Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now including the 100 laptop.

He did do it. The tender had nothing in it that related to us, nothing specific about sunlight readable, mesh network, low power, but just a vanilla laptop proposal.

In 2005, Papert, together with Nicholas Negroponte and Alan Kay launched the One Laptop Per Child initiative to put constructionist learning into practice in the developing world.

Yusuf, age nine, working on a computer at the Qattan Center, told me that he wanted to be a pilot.

See also desktop replacement computer, a large laptop designed to perform all of the functions of a desktop computer.

They often use some of several laboratory methods for diagnosis of bad breath Halimeter a portable sulfide monitor used to test for levels of sulfur emissions (to be specific, hydrogen sulfide) in the mouth air.

This had the first pointing device. It was distributed, so it worked out distributed computing and modems so all these things could talk to each other.

Laptop

Tablet

Laptop PC

TED follows Nicholas Negroponte to Colombia as he delivers laptops inside territory once controlled by guerrillas. His partner? Colombia's Defense Department, who see One Laptop per Child as an investment in the region.

I gave them a computer with a speech to text interface, which you now get free with Windows, and asked them to speak into it.

Description A NAS unit is a computer connected to a network that provides only file based data storage services to other devices on the network.

The computers back up each other. There's a voting system if one computer is not agreeing with the other three, it's kicked out of the system.

The evidence in this case, as in so many others, consists of Microsoft Word documents found on a computer that belonged to Saylan s foundation.

Some data loggers interface with a personal computer and utilize software to activate the data logger and view and analyze the collected data, while others have a local interface device (keypad, LCD) and can be used as a stand alone device.

Oh, that's a cell phone.