Impressed with Apple's inflated version of the iPhone that is the iPad? A new gadget, developed by seven Indian youngsters could make Steve Jobs' product seem as obsolete as a rock.

'Adam', a new gizmo, is a tablet quite like the iPad - it is powered by Nvidia's Tegra 2 chip and is loaded with a PixelQi screen. The combination of the two results to extraordinarily high battery life and extremely low power consumption. 'Adam' effectively performs twice as good as Apple's iPad. The device was developed by six IIT graduates and an MBA graduate, aged between 23 and 25 - Rohan Shravan- IIT- KGP (2008), Rohit Rathi - IIT- KGP (2008), Sachin Ralhan – IIPM, Mohit Gupta - IIT- KGP (2008), Anirudh Gupta –IIT Delhi (2007), Rajat Sahni – IIT Delhi (2007) and Devanshu Agrawal - IIT- KGP (2008). The gadget is equipped with a 10-inch screen and features some of the technology that was used in the $100 OLPC (one laptop per child) project. Unlike the IMOLED screen, the PixelQI screen lets users read text on the 'Adam' clearly even in bright sunlight.

Coming to the specs - the 'Adam' runs on a dual core 1Ghz processor, weighs 1.7 pounds, boasts a battery life of 16 hours (160 hours when the back light is off!), has a 3MP camera, offers support for full 1080p HD videos, comes with Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth support, supports multitasking, runs Mozilla Firefox AND Chrome browser, and is also loaded with an ambient light sensor, AGPS, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, a touchpad and an SD card slot. From those specs alone we can guarantee you that the 'Adam' would knock the iPad out of the stratosphere.

The 'Adam', which took almost three years to develop was demonstrated in January at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show), which is the world's largest consumer tech trade show. On Monday the device would be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. According to co-founder Rohan Shravan, "We knew that Indian engineers and designers were doing most of the innovative work at Microsoft, Intel, and Apple. We just needed to take the first step. Current PC technology is like a Hummer on a city road."

The 'Adam' is expected to cost a bit less than the iPad, and the device will go on sale in July first in the US. Co-founder Shravan says that the 'Adam' would kick the iPad where it hurts because it has all the features that the Apple product was criticised for not having. "The chip provides an edge over the iPad with its ability to play full high definition videos and Flash on the web browser. It can offer the performance of a computer with the power consumption of a cellphone." The band of seven geniuses are based at Hyderabad, where they formed their company 'Notion Ink'. Since India does not have a lot of people working on Google's Android operating system, and other companies ask for lakhs per month, the founders of Notion Ink decided to hire and train engineers themselves. As of now there are 50 engineers in the firm. The founders even worked with National Institute of Design (NID) in Bangalore to develop a beautiful, easy to use touch/user interface which runs on Android. "We've taken design inspiration from a 400-year tradition - the user interface of magazines!" Shravan says.

According to Rajat Sahni, "We got the infrastructure at their Innovation Center, and the students as well. We knew the technology in and out and started training them. Within two months it started paying off, and we started developing the professional applications for the product we wanted to design. The company is working on an application store platform of its own, where users can find a wide variety of content. It will offer everything from apps, books, video, audio, to magazines, newspapers and comics

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Looks nice.

Thnx raja, the only intension i had to post this article tht even in south asia we can come up with the technologies like tht.. and let it not be the legacy of only japan, US, Europe, Korea and China. I didn't post this with bad intension but as u can see the 1st comment... why we all make it a regional issue. At least can we find some common grounds to enjoy on something or be proud of something.. whatever may be the political scenario currently may be..

enjoy ur few days ...... ROFL!

Looks pretty cool. Among other things, it has HDMI output, where as Apple only has VGA and makes you buy a dock to add USB ports; has flash supports, Apples doesn't support flash; gives user choice of Operating System, Apples OS sucks; lets you use firefox as a browser, not crappy Safari.

my dear friend, its not made in India.
Even the smallest integrated circuit inside is aether from Taiwan or from China.
The graphics chip is from Nvidia, The processor is from Intel. the LCD is from Toshiba Japan, the mother board is from China, even the casing and plastics are from else where then India..
When u'll buy the Gismo toy plz do open it and see all the stuffs inside with markings clearly showing other origins of fabrication then India.
> India has no plants to create Solid state devices, how can it create DSP microprocessors LCDs and other high tech devices inside it....

My dear friend we(All third world countries including India) are way behind in fabrication of Solid state devices( mainly because of funds since it neads Billions of Dollars of investment to build such plants)
No big deal....


Sorry to disappoint u man...

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even if they do get the hang of IC and microprocessor fabrication , calling it the iPAD killer is a joke,, creating IT professionals and writing software codes is easy, but VLSI engineering and IC fabrication, i dont think so

Atleast its package cover might have beein made and printed in india or ththat also was from china?

Its probably OEMed from China or Taiwan, but some software work might have been done by Notion people, all in all a good effort and entrepreneurial spirit.

It's a pretty cool development.

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IPAD cost comparison with other competitors.

VLSI Market in India

India was projected as a software super power,But it has now set its sights on becoming an all-round IT super source as India’s hardware design engineers join hands with their software developer brethren.

IC Design in India
Perhaps the most important event that has occurred in the area of design has been the arrival of Texas Instruments in India in 1986 to develop CAD products for IC design. Then it got ambitious. Today, designs in application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), linear ICs and application specific memories account for an important part of the products that Texas Instruments ships from its Bangalore base. Before the MNCs ventured into this field, the development activity was restricted to the government sector. Projects involving design of ICs, specially ASICs, had been set up by Department of Electronics (DoE) at IIT Centres (Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kharagpur), Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), Jadavpur University (Calcutta) and Central Electrical Engineering Research University (Pilani). Since then over 80 different types of ASICs have been designed and supplied to the customers by DoE centres at Bangalore, Noida, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Pune, Thiruvanan-thapuram and New Delhi. The centres at Bangalore and Noida are being operated by Semiconductor Complex Limited (SCL) on behalf of DoE. Among other public sector companies involved in the effort of designing chips are Bharat Electronics Limited and ITI. It was, however, Texas Instruments’ enterprise that brought other MNCs like SGS Thomson and Cadence into the country.

MNCs in India
What has made India the design hub, according to some in the industry, is the saving of 33 per cent to 50 per cent in engineering costs. However, there are others who believe that no matter now dramatic these savings may seem, such considerations do not percolate down to the street price of the chip. Finally, the net price of a chip designed in India will be no different from another coming out of a design shop in the Silicon Valley of USA. The question that remains then is, ‘What attracts the MNCs to India?’ The answer, according to experts, is that it is a lot easier to build a team in India, and when you give customers a product ahead of time, they are prepared to pay a premium for it. The other reasons are the potential market that is expected to come up in the next five years in India and the proximity to the high chip consuming industry in the Asia Pacific region.
Other players in the region are Arcus Technology, SAS, DCM and Usha Matra. The close relation of software with chip designing is what makes the situation ideal for India-situated design companies. The development of a semiconductor chip based VLSI (very large scale integrated circuit) requires an enormous development of software. This is where India has a marked edge over other developing countries.
Another factor that has aided designing has been the availability of electronic design software and design automation. This assistance is offered by companies like Apara Design Automation, Wipro Infotech, Digipro Design Automation, Future Techno Designs Pte Ltd, NIIT, Usha Matra etc.
Among the public sector undertakings, Indian Telephone Industries had, by the mid-1990s, set up a tiny 200 wafer-a-week, 10cm (4-inch), 3-micron fab for ASIC production, and has since made significant headway over the years. Bharat Electronics Ltd branched away from its traditional defence focus earlier this decade and is an important volume producer of ICs. It signed on SGS Thomson Microelectronics to help boost its fabrication output from 15 million to 100 million units using the 15cm (6-inch) wafer and 1.5-micron technology, and has been graduating from strength to strength since then.
The private sector achievements read like a book of records in electronics. Texas Instruments India, like many multinational subsidiaries in the country, has invested heavily in VLSI facilities. Its centre for design is one of the largest in the world. It recently designed a completely Indian core chip called Ankoor. It is the first US company to have designed a core processor (a chip loaded with software) completely in India. As far as memory chips are concerned, the first full-chip memory design for 4M DRAM in India was completed as early as 1993. An 8M flash memory chip has also been designed in India.
Motorola’s Bangalore design centre has designed some chips for the Iridium project. It is now designing chips for Teledesic, the satellite communications company in which Bill Gates, Craig Mc Caw, Motorola and Boeing have equity stakes. IBM’s centre develops ASIC chips for IBM products that are manufactured in fabrication centres abroad. Its ASIC centre at Bangalore is among the twelve across the world to have the capability of designing a complete processor. IBM has complete skills in VLSI, planner design, electronic design automation software and firmware. The hardware/VLSI team’s service is focussed on front-end design, functional verification, model development and library development. Wipro Infotech has designed a full-fledged networking ATM system for local and wide areas, an IEEEB 94 link chip and a cash-control system for a client in the US. It also provides hardware and ASIC design, operating systems like UNIX, NT, non-stop kernel, device drivers, middleware for distributed computing, UNIX/NT interoperability tools and embedded systems. Aside from the ability to design ASICs from concept to silicon, it has the ability to design multiprocessor systems and other hardware for high-speed switches and adaptors. Wipro specialises in hardware (ASIC/board/system) design with extensive use of hardware design languages, synthesis and simulation tools using either Verilog, VDHL or schematic entry as the front-end. Wipro has a lot to show in terms of experience with synthesis and simulation tools like Synopsis and industry-standard tools like motive-to-design arrays or standard cells for different ASIC foundaries. DCM Data Systems, pioneer in this field, has developed chips for ISRO and Defence Research Development Organisation. Now it is designing chips for a cellular company. It has also designed a chip that extends the capability of a peripheral-connecting device in a computer and is now discussing possibilities with a few computer manufacturers. DCM is also producing chips for mobile communications, functional programming languages and computer architecture. These designs are active in ASICs. Among the company’s ASIC/PPGA design tools, the significant ones are the VDHL system simulator, DC Expert, FPGA Compiler, PCI Bus Interface Models, Vantage Simulator, Cadence Verilog X: Simulator Altera Max+II, PLSM-VDHL and PLS-MAGNUM.
TVSE designs chips and electronics for peripherals, and is perhaps one of the few successful hardware exporters in the country today. In addition to these companies there are small start-ups which are sometimes able to obtain subcontracts from companies like IBM. Nevertheless, there are new stalwarts like Arcus Technology which started in 1990 with gate array for telecom requirements of ITI. Arcus soon matured to be able to attract and tackle large-sized, state-of-the-art design projects. These include challenging, full-custom chips for instrumentation applications on the one hand and highly complex SDH chip design on the other. Arcus supports a few EDA tool vendors to promote their products in India and also promote the VLSI design culture and capabilities. Arcus had already completed almost 20 ASICs by 1994 and had proven its design capabilities in various application areas in contemporary technologies. Arcus successfully executed the SDH mapper project which had approximately a 250,000-gate complexity and was the largest ASIC in Asia. In 1995 Arcus won two more contracts from major Korean semiconductor companies. Arcus also licensed key analogue design and technology to a Korean semiconductor company. This was probably the first time any Indian company had licensed technology to a foreign company in the area of VLSI. Today Arcus has completed almost 50 ASICs and over 10 design projects including technology and product licensing to Korean, European and American companies. Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd specialises in the design and development of microprocessor/microcontroller based electronics. Synopsys India Pvt Ltd is the largest R&D centre ouside the US engaged in the development of the fastest Verilog simulator VCS and VHDL simulator VSS. Synopsys India specialises in the development of leading edge EDA software products to be used for solving the problems of next-generation hardware designs as well as for providing state-of-the-art design methodologies and consulting services. The presence of software developers as well as design engineers in the facility provides a unique opportunity for close interaction between software developers and end-users of the products. Another company, U&I Scotty Computers Pvt Ltd, has immense talents in the field of ASIC design and development. Its products include a high-end RSIC processor. Bangalore based N-Core Technology, apart from marketing Yantra, its lightweight multimedia laptop PC, has also moved focus on marketing its hardware design skills internationally. The company had announced in 1996 that it would focus on the design of digital signal processor based systems and ASICs.

VLSI in Communications
There has been a spurt in VLSI devices over the last 15 years as a result of the growth in mobile communication systems which enabled a person to communicate with anyone from anywhere at any time. Mobile communication is now almost in the third generation stage with the introduction of data services along with voice and intelligent network control. It is projected to arrive at the fourth generation by year 2000 by when multimedia services would also be included. VLSI technology will be propelled by wireless and multimedia communications for the next 10 years, which will give the Indian VLSI/ASIC designing industry a fillip. Perhaps this will give a boost to fabrication facilities in India. So far the fabrication has been miniscule. Most in the industry are not optimistic since the seed capital for setting up an IC fabrication plant is prohibitively expensive for any potential investor in the country. But with faster than expected growth in wireless and multimedia communications, it may prove more feasible. It is true that even ten years back no one could imagine India producing VLSI design.

Government’s Initiatives
Even the government sector has not lagged behind in terms of involvement with higher technology. Over 80 different types of ASICs have been designed and supplied to customers by DoE. The department has 26 projects on VLSI, involving an outlay of about Rs 160 million, to keep pace with the development. Much more manpower will be required in the future.
The DoE has announced a special manpower development for VLSI design to develop infrastructure for this industry. The objective of the programme is to make India a major VLSI design testing and application development destination globally and to catalyse an increase in India’s share of the global market from the current level of 0.5 per cent to 5 per cent by the end of the Ninth Plan. The basic philosophy behind the programme is for the government to play the role of a catalyst and infrastructure provider. The key ingredients of the government inputs for this area are: development of trained manpower, nurturing of a few institutions of excellence in CAD of LSI/VLSI, promoting and projecting India’s strength.
The Ninth Plan Study Team on Microelectronics has recommended development of specialised manpower at BE/B. Tech, ME/M. Tech and Ph. D levels, development of specialised knowledge centres, silicon siliconisation of the designs through an India Chip Programme and promotional efforts to market India as a global destination for VLSI design.
A few MNCs have begun to provide vital support to institutions in terms of expertise and instituting fellowships. India may soon emerge as strongly in design as it has in software development.

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I hope blueazure i am able to find some reasons why to call adam indegenous built

you Indians should help Pakistan also together we can over take china and tiwan ,

indian mind Pakistan any how do attitude we can beat the very best in the world...

True my friend.. you know it would be like perfectly ideal world.... riaz_1973 .. we need to work together to resolve our differences.. with bilateral talks.. and I am sure there are would be certain areas like sports, entertainment and technology building.. where we can find common interests irrespective of regional and political differences.. and we the people of both countries should not bring hatred and differences and think above it..

I know i can understand that emotion

so according to your logic, all apple products dont ever provide any revenue or name recognition to Apple in Cupertino. do you know what the transfer price, markups and inter company margins are. All part numbers i look at are manufacture in China and Taiwan. so I dont even know what you are talking abt,

Apple increased its revenues from 20 billion cash few years ago to 40 billion cash by buying stuff from china/taiwan but IP resides in Cupertino. That is where the money and value flows back. so I think it is good that they are doing it , because we need IP and name recognition. I only buy Shan masala, because I know that the masala is the bomb, I also only buy Basmati rice made in India/Pakistan and not from any other place. The stuff wouldnt be selling like hot cakes everyhwree if they just stayed in their own country and did not innovate. so good for them.

This was on engadget a few weeks ago and got some rave reviews. It was even published at CES and it was classified as one of the best devieces at CES. Can you beieve how awesome it is.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/notion-...ts-latest-form/
http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-f...o-demo-1473893/

specs
Think of everything you wanted in the iPad, and this has it.

Tegra2 + Cortex A9

1080p w/ HDMI output

3 USB

3MP webcam with 180-degree swivel

Back-facing trackpad

16 hours battery life

Pixel Qi hybrid touchscreen display

Multitasking

Flash

ipad sucks....so that adam watever its name.what about customer support?software updates ?patches.thats not work for tiny company you need corporation level to actually sell anything like that.let alone comparing with likes of apple. i saw a lot of copies from china for Ipad.is it big deal!
time will tell.

Any way neither we look chines or we speak chines both India and Pakistan we speak the same language and share the same culture so we should cooperate

@hassan.. rightly said hassan. now when company has planned to launch such product.. it may already have thought about customer support.. i think we should wait and watch and hope this product will do good in the market.. its good for all of us.. as we will have something cost effective and we wouldn't need to buy ipad tablets from grey market.. due to its non-affordability.. I am hoping this should go well.. Regarding Chinese i think we all know chinese products doesn't have warranty or guarranty.. this will have it.. because it is not like chinese mobile without any repairing guarantee.. it is a product which company wishes to launch on world platform so, the big difference is quality, its cost and easy availability to all of us.. do you think if ur ipad will get a problem will u be able to repair it soon.. but i think we all have an advantage here with adam..

Bro .. Just wish this one should do better .. than i pad.. don't u wish so.. just becoz its indian. product. friend.. we all will be benefited with this product launch ..

bilkul saahi bhai..

So u forgot two nation theory heh,
Its not a topic of Pak studies my friend, its the reality.
Plz show some respect to ur country.....How can an Indian and Pakistani be the same......????? bullscrape

Off topic..Ok dear, I think India and Pakistan are already two countries now its been above 60 years now what we are discussing here is cooperation between two countries to develop advanced technologies.. @tiberia, people who invented this theory followed this and practiced this are gone.. conditions that time were different and it was or may be the demand of that time .. but after 60 yrs of independence i think we should agree and try to co-exist.. as humans.. If u think i m off topic and talking non-sense may it be.. i still feel we should try to co-exist now.. what history we learnt during our time in India... and the history books now are different.. we were never been taught to hate muslims or hate Pakistan... my education system said India for all and all for India..

Spilling venom against india.. won't make Pakistan great or won't make india small.. becoz these are all words.. and our thoughts.. fact is completely different... politicians on both sides have always tried to create ridge and malign picture about countries.. to bake their own breads but country and people are two different entities.. you should check reality..

Demand of time is to check behaviour of real people in both countries.. on your own..

History is something that we learn about people or place.. what our leaders want us to know about them.. it is projection and analysis of events leaders at that time.. present is always different than history .. .so, let us live in present and try to minimize our differences.. becoz its a demand of time.. other countries want us to fight a war.. why.. because they have strategic interest in this region.. it is us who should get smart enough to understand and try to co-exist.

I have nothing more to day..

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abay bat sun tu MQM ka tu nai ha??listen india itna pasand ha wahan jyo shamash.

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Apart from my dear friend... its

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