MIT developing $100 laptops for children

[evilernie]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/04/04/hundred.dollar.laptops.ap/index.html

 

[liketom]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/117843/

 

[miloblithe]

A battery you can recharge with a hand crank!!

An ambitious project. $100 seems pretty low, but as they say the screen is the major obstacle. But it shouldn't take forever for 12" (or even 10") screens to get cheap enough.

 

[wdlove]

I think that this is a very worthwhile project. My hope is that MIT isn't using Windows. There mass production plans would certainly lower the price.

 

[evilernie]

Sorry

Didn't mean to start a duplicate thread. Great minds think alike.