Africa
- AMD Personal Internet Communicator
- Bamboo Treadle Pump
- Big Boda load-carrying bicycle
- Ceramic Water Filter
- Domed Pit Latrine Slab kit
- Drip Irrigation System
- Internet Village Motoman Network
- Jaipur foot and below-knee prosthesis
- Kenya Ceramic Jiko
- Kinkajou Microfilm Projector and Portable Library
- LifeStraw
- One Laptop per Child
- MoneyMaker Block Press
- MoneyMaker Hip Pump
- Pot-in-Pot cooler
- PermaNet
- Q Drum
- Solar Home Lighting System
- Solar Aid
- StarSight
- Sugarcane charcoal
- Super MoneyMaker Pump
- Water Storage System
- WorldBike prototype
AMD Personal Internet Communicator
Currently, only 16% of the world’s population have access to the most basic computing technologies. AMD’s Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) was designed specifically to provide basic computing functionality, including Internet access, at affordable prices. AMD’s 50×15 initiative is an effort to develop new technology and solutions that will help enable affordable Internet access and computing capability for 50 percent of the world’s population by the year 2015.
- Designer: M3 Design
- Manufacturer: Solectron and FIC
- United States, Mexico, and Brazil, 2004
- Cast aluminum base, molded PC/ABS plastic two-piece external shell finished, TPE trim band, rubber feet; 10GB 3.5” internal hard disk running on an AMD Geode™ GX processor, screws
- Dimensions: 2.5” h x 5.5” w x 8.5“d
- In use in: Brazil, British Virgin Islands, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, United States
- Photo: © 2005 M3 Design
