I’ve been fascinated with this project ever since I heard about it on a podcast from IT Conversations over a year ago.  The goal of OLPC is to produce a laptop for $100 and then get them into the hands of children in developing nations.  They say, “Laptops are both a window and a tool: a window into the world and a tool with which to think.” I think the long term global results from a project like this will be unbelievable.  I wonder what would be more significant in the lives of children in developing nations:  formal education or a laptop?

Here is a picture of the first working model and an earlier proposed model with a hand crank to generate electricity.

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