DirtbikeNet: Connection Speed is 25mph
Designers at San Jose-based design firm Whipsaw have come up with a Digital Dirt Bike, a novel way to distribute vast amounts of medical, agricultural, and educational information to villages too remote to have a reliable access to the internet, or electricity for that matter. A local technician drives from village to village, delivering treatments for common plant, animal and human diseases; weather forecasts; supplemental school lessons; and vocational information for farming and industry. The unit contains a notebook computer, printer, camera, satellite phone, and a sunshade. The double lid has two solar panels, used to power and recharge the equipment.
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