Solar Powered Offline Version Of The Internet

I'm just going to post this link and let you guys discuss the claims made in the video.

If its Off-the-line how will it work with On-the-line?

im thinking its internet connected somehow to a base station

Following their link at the end takes you to their Indiegogo page.

"Initially, Lantern will receive about 2 MB/day, though we will increase this number in the future. Depending on the success of this campaign, we could stream data at up to 100 MB/day."

So, it's a storage device for web 1.0-style content. It seems very RSS in nature in some regards. Could it have it's place? Sure, I suppose.

I don't see this being a major tool in disaster situations due to it's limited updating. Disasters necessitate an up-to-the-minute update on what's happening, not a 2MB daily synopsis. If anything, it's a last-resort news mechanism and solar-powered cell phone charger.

As for school content, this is where it can shine. 2MB a day can be quite a bit of text information. 2nd/3rd world locations need all the content they can get, and this is a viable option for such situations. Beyond that, I don't see it holding much weight for the average 1st-world consumer.

It pretty much just caches Outernet.is. It would be great for schools in 3rd countries, and just like a wind-up radio it could get you some info in case of an emergency, but I don't think it is super game changing.

that outernet thing is pretty neat... they plan on doing up to 100gb content a day via ku band satellites... pretty cool

Seems like a good idea

I think it's a good idea. Very limited of course, but in a lot of the areas of the world it might be the best available.

thewooster said:

I think it's a good idea. Very limited of course, but in a lot of the areas of the world it might be the best available.

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at 100Gb/day it could replace a lot of things even here... you could upload news stories, videos, all sorts of stuff, and have a daily local intranet of information to access... I think that's actually really really neat... I don't use the internet much at home, check emails on phone, so if this thing downloaded some interesting tidbits every day why have internet? oh ya... the [H] almost forgot

ccmfreak2 said:

Following their link at the end takes you to their Indiegogo page.

"Initially, Lantern will receive about 2 MB/day, though we will increase this number in the future. Depending on the success of this campaign, we could stream data at up to 100 MB/day."

So, it's a storage device for web 1.0-style content. It seems very RSS in nature in some regards. Could it have it's place? Sure, I suppose.

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As for school content, this is where it can shine. 2MB a day can be quite a bit of text information. 2nd/3rd world locations need all the content they can get, and this is a viable option for such situations. Beyond that, I don't see it holding much weight for the average 1st-world consumer.

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This makes the video seem particularly disingenuous when Harlan Mandell // CEO, Media Development Investment Fund says "There are many people, all over the world, who can't afford what it costs to download that kind of data." 2MB of data?