“One Laptop per Child”: the $100 laptop!
November 18th, 2005
Yup, it’s true, MIT Media Lab just presented the world with the little and cheap laptop they have been developing to help fight the digital divide between rich and poor countries.
This little computer is surelly impressive, but not only for it’s price: it’s a full color, linux based and powered in a very special way: with a wind-up crank!! (I sure would appreciate having something like that on my mac!), it does have some limitations, expecially regarding data storage, but the model is more like a network computer than like a true laptop, it does come WIFI and USB ready!
The main idea behind this project if to enable kids from poor countries to be connected to the Digital World, and from there to learn and improve themselfs, this little computer is just the enabler of that bright future!
BBC has a more in depth article and video about this little computer presentation to the world.
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1. CoCo Mitchell | January 7th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
I am intrested in helping students in The Gambia, west Africa . Please inform me on what to do next.
2. Centopeia » “One &hellip | May 24th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
[...] I’ve talked about it here in the past, but seems that the first pictures of a working model have just made it to flickr, check them out at this photoset. [...]
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