The rectangular white object pictured above, with the many different wires sticking out of its sides, reminds me of a lot of things. It reminds me of a USB modem, an external hard drive, a USB card reader, and more. But no matter how many things I think of upon seeing this thing, I’m not likely to think that this is actually a laptop. And I doubt if anyone would.

According to the source, this photo was taken at the official unveiling of India’s $10 laptop, which sounded good on paper, but upon closer inspection of the pitch appeared to be a really bad joke. In the end, there was no $10 laptop, there aren’t any plans to make one, and the closest we can get to it is this “computing device that can store a user’s data and connect to a laptop.” See there, it connects to a laptop itself. And stores data. Sounds more like a USB flash drive to me. But no matter how they do it, if they can, I would love to see this $10 laptop. No, really. It would be hilarious.

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