The Ndiyo Blog

At Ndiyo, we have a standard chicken-and-egg problem.

We’re starting to get Nivo devices in a form that we could actually sell in the fairly near future, but we’re only making them in small prototype quantities, which makes them rather expensive. To sell them at anything like the price we’re aiming for, we’d need to be building them in batches of a few thousand at a time, and that requires the type of capital that, as a small not-for-profit, we just don’t have. But we won’t get those numbers if we tried to sell them now, even at a price that would just cover our present costs.

So we need to find organisations who might, in due course, be interested in placing orders for hundreds or thousands of units to get the ball rolling. And with this in mind, we’re launching a Starter Kit (which might be better named an Early-Access Kit) which will allow interested parties to get their hands on some Nivos, try them out, and help guide their progress towards wider commercial availability.

This is being done in conjunction with our new sister company, Cambridge Visual Networks, and you can find out more about the kit on their site. Please consider whether your organisation might be able to support the ongoing work of Ndiyo by signing up for one of these!

Microsoft researchers in India have been experimenting with splitting a screen in two so that two people could share a computer simultaneously.

We had a similar idea a few years ago, as evidenced by this work of art from my Ndiyo notebook:

It makes greater sense now, with the growing popularity of wide-screen monitors.