Better known for producing poverty and political mayhem, the Western Hemisphere's least developed country has made a surprising entry into the high-tech world with its own Android tablet.

Sandwiched between textile factories in a Port-au-Prince industrial park next to a slum, a Haitian-founded company has begun manufacturing the low-cost tablet, called Surtab — a name closely resembling the Haitian Creole for "on the table."

Unlike the factories next door where low-paid textile workers churn out cheap undergarments for the U.S. market, Surtab workers are equipped with soldering irons, not sewing machines.