Prominently a single circuit board being in the size of a credit card accompanied by no screen otherwise keyboard, a far cry from the smooth tablets that dominate the technology market. On the contrary the world's cheapest computer, costing just US$25 (S$31.60), has filled with sudden and overpowering surprise its British creators by selling almost 1.5 million units in 18 months. The Raspberry Pi is at the present time powering robots in Japan as well as warehouse doors in Malawi, photographing star-shaped bodies from the United States at the same time helping to equivocate censorship in China. Eben Upton, executive director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation expressed that they are closing in on one and a half million (sales) for something that they thought would sell a thousand.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)