Charity drive: old memory for new hope

Okay the tax-deductible gift giving high-season is over, but its never too early to start the year as you mean to go on and give an donate an old (or new) USB flash memory drive to a good cause.

Innovative Inveneo is looking for donations of your old USB flash drives, or purchasing of news ones as donations from their Amazon wish list.

What will they do with all their flash booty? Well Inveneo does great stuff on projects around the world setting up low power hi tech systems to bring phone service and network connectivity to remote areas. Their custom designed hardware and software uses a fraction of the power of a typical home computer system and thus runs easily from renewable resources like solar, wind and even pedal power.

Using long distance WiFi links Inveneo's systems can beam network connectivity from existing sources far into the boonies benefiting schools, farmers and communities as a whole. Layered over the network connection VoIP technology provides a regular phone connection giving these remote locations a valuable voice connection with the rest of the world.