Photos: PCs for the poor

HP scotched its experiment with a four-person, multilanguage PC called the 441 System. But related efforts are still alive. Women in Kuppam, India, have created a business out of taking portraits and ID card photos with a solar-powered HP printer and a digital camera, and the company has also created a van rigged with PCs to let farmers test their soil.

Photo by Hewlett-Packard