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Some of the world's poorest kids will soon have access to laptop computers and even basic email.

It's all thanks to the nonprofit agency "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC), which has created an affordable, rugged laptop that will have all the modern trappings: mike, speaker, camera, USB ports, a screen that's visible in bright sunlight, even a wirelesss network between laptops in a classroom.

Manufacturers have kept the price low (one unit is $100US) by slashing unnecessary functions, storage capability and energy requirements. Since many students don’t have electricity at home, the device can be hand-cranked.

Little wonder Popular Science has awared OLPG a Grand Award for Best of What's New 2006. The laptop will be sold directly to governments for distribution through schools by the end of the year. A pilot project for Brazil, Libya, Nigeria and Thailand is under discussion.

For more information visit: www.laptop.org.
 
Those poor kids. All they had going for them was their isolation from Bill Gates and now it's gone!
 
The articles that I have read suggest that the guy running it is hugely pompous, he had to invent his own OS, and do a bunch of things in different ways, because he knows better than the entire computer industry, and he knows better what children need than anyone. Hopefully the project will be successful, but he will be somehow discredited.
 
I may be wrong but I seem to recall that Gates is a large supporter of this cause. It's not like kids in 3rd world countries are his market.

It's about bringing some form of higher education levels than currently offered to children. it's not about profit potential.
 
WhaWhaWha said:
Those poor kids. All they had going for them was their isolation from Bill Gates and now it's gone!
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Fear not, it runs Linux not Windows, and probably doesn't have any Microshit on it.
 
mmouse said:
Fear not, it runs Linux not Windows, and probably doesn't have any Microshit on it.
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Thanks for the info mmouse. I've heard an awful lot about Linux but never had the pleasure.

I know these "laptops" are limited in what they can do, but I like the fact that they have no battery and rely on the user having to wind them up in order to generate the required electrical charge.
 
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