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$100 Laptop
I heard about this amazing innovation a few months ago and have been looking forward to seeing the final project… well it has been finished.
The laptops are powered with a wind-up crank, have very low power consumption and will let children interact with each other while learning. It is touted as a potent learning tool created expressly for the world’s poorest children living in its most remote environments.
Read a BBC news report here.
Nicholas Negroponte is former Director of the MIT Media Lab, and founder of the non-profit, One Laptop Per Child, dedicated to making the famed $100 laptop a reality.
In this talk, he outlines some of the challenges of getting a $100 laptop produced, and explains why he stepped down as Media Lab director to focus on it full-time, “for the rest of my life.”
I love that great minds are committing themselves to helping the plight of poor children around the world!
This is will be a great learning tool for children. I like how practical this laptop is, any kid can use it anywhere.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/laptop.html here is an article published a while ago about the designer’s ideas and influences for the laptop. I like what he says here- “everything on the laptop serves at least two purposes,â€.