$100 Laptops...
I picked this up out of a wonderful computer geek resource...eWeek.
The first working prototype of an affordable lap top was rolled out a few weeks ago at the UN World Summit on Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia.
It came to be as a joint project between MIT's Media Lab and the One Laptop per Child association, whose stated mission is to distribute computers to school children in under-developed nations.
The really odd aspect of this, other than the fact that a world information symposium took place in Tunisia, possibly one of the most restrictive societies in the world, is that these laptops are powered by a hand crank.
Yes, you read that correctly.
A hand crank.
They kept the $100 dollar price a reality via a limited software package, they went with a Linux-based system, and a small display.
They hope that the small systems will be able to access Wi-Fi through a mesh network.
An hand cranked, small screened internet accessible $100 dollar laptop...
Wow!
No word on if they will be available in the U. S. or not...or to the general public at all.
The first working prototype of an affordable lap top was rolled out a few weeks ago at the UN World Summit on Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia.
It came to be as a joint project between MIT's Media Lab and the One Laptop per Child association, whose stated mission is to distribute computers to school children in under-developed nations.
The really odd aspect of this, other than the fact that a world information symposium took place in Tunisia, possibly one of the most restrictive societies in the world, is that these laptops are powered by a hand crank.
Yes, you read that correctly.
A hand crank.
They kept the $100 dollar price a reality via a limited software package, they went with a Linux-based system, and a small display.
They hope that the small systems will be able to access Wi-Fi through a mesh network.
An hand cranked, small screened internet accessible $100 dollar laptop...
Wow!
No word on if they will be available in the U. S. or not...or to the general public at all.
posted by Mark "Puff" Anderson | 11:16 AM
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