Spending some time today at the super neat Windows Embedded Student Challenge Finals. Just now I'm sitting in the final presentation from the Brazilian UNESP team who built a Windows CE based street blogging system. They've put a web server and the input mechanism on a tiny Ebox and are talking about how Coca-Cola could use something like this to create interactive billboards on the streets - exactly the kind of thing I pitched to Coke when I was there working on emerging tech.
Next up - Inspired to help break the cycle of poverty for the extimated 960 Million adult illiterates in the world by the UNESCO year of illiteracy the team from the University of Craiova in Romania built the ilit - an inexpensive device to teach reading and writing using a tablet, screen and pictures.
These kids are amazing. I was nowhere near this mature/professional/smart at their age. As Ivan Joseph - the Microsoft organizer of this competition - put it, it's a great time to be at University, it's changed so much since we were in college.
Posted By: Chris Lukasik
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