Nick Negroponte, who I’ve never heard of either, thinks he can build $100 laptops to sell to developing countries for distribution to children. The most interesting part of this, in my mind, is that it will be crank powered. That’s right — turn the crank for one minute, get ten minutes of power. Funded by such diverse backers as Rupert Murdoch and Google, “Each laptop will include a Wi-Fi radio transmitter designed to knit machines into a wireless “mesh” so they can share a Net connection, passing it from one computer to the next” (CNN).
I’ll take one.
holy crap, now if only they could do the same thing with cell phones, vibrators and loudspeakers. innovations such as these will bring peace and prosperity across the land!