It is with great delight that I accept the Champions of Change Award, on behalf of the Alianza Emergency Preparedness ProjectPlus and the extraordinary families, who by their participation and support have made the program a great success.
Now, this isn't just a consumer tablet -- Spark's aimed at "those who love writing great software... using the typical Linux tools" -- but it will offer access to ebooks from Project Gutenberg, plus Qt and QML apps, too.
That's the plan behind the Power Line Urban Sentry (PLUS) project currently being run by the Air Force Research Laboratory and private firm Defense Research Associates, and it's already yielded UAVs that can land on power lines and charge in three hours.