Wind-up laptop aims to narrow digital divide
A prototype of a $100 wind-up laptop was demonstrated at the UN's World Summit on the Information Society by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT, reports the BBC.
The lime green laptops shown at the summit in Tunis are aimed at children in the developing world but have many innovative features that could appeal to adults. They have an AC adaptor that doubles as a carrying strap and flash memory - which is a more robust form of storage than a hard drive. They also have very low power consumption.
Governments in the developing world can offer the laptops to their schoolchildren if they commit to buying a million machines for around $100 each.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4445060.stm
A prototype of a $100 wind-up laptop was demonstrated at the UN's World Summit on the Information Society by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT, reports the BBC.
The lime green laptops shown at the summit in Tunis are aimed at children in the developing world but have many innovative features that could appeal to adults. They have an AC adaptor that doubles as a carrying strap and flash memory - which is a more robust form of storage than a hard drive. They also have very low power consumption.
Governments in the developing world can offer the laptops to their schoolchildren if they commit to buying a million machines for around $100 each.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4445060.stm
posted by Joia Shillingford at Thursday, November 17, 2005
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