Monday, June 06, 2005

Laptops for Kids With No Power

Wired News: "Giving laptops to school kids has been a big hit in the United States, but an ambitious plan to sell millions of cheap notebooks to children in developing countries may be more challenging, experts warn. Many need electricity more than laptops.
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT's Media Lab, is planning to provide several hundred million kids in developing countries their own rugged, internet- and multimedia-capable $100 laptops. "

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