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A collection of photos taken by some very excited person as he/she opens and boots up their $100/$200 laptop from the one laptop per child program for the first time. -
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One Laptop Per Child -
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That advance and others have allowed the nonprofit project, One Laptop Per Child, to win over many skeptics over the last two and a half years. Five countries — Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria and Thailand — have made tentative commitments to put the computers into the hands of millions of students, with production in Taiwan expected to begin by mid-2007 -
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One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world’s children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineers and scientists have paid off in a pioneering low-cost machine that is light, rugged and surprisingly versatile. The early reviews have been glowing, and mass production is set to start next month. -
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# Story Highlights # $100 laptop now slated to cost $188 when mass production begins this fall # Reasons for increase: Currency fluctuations and the rising costs of components # The laptops feature an open-source interface designed to be intuitive for children # One Laptop Per Child has commitments for at least 3 million computers -
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David Stairs (author) describes his experience at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibit "Design for the Other 90%." An exhibit about product design for impoverished and developing countries. He asks some hard questions here about the successes and failures of these products meant to help these people... -
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The world-changing hundred-dollar laptop is going into mass production, which means that soon one of two things will happen. Either a) a huge number of these things will get shipped into developing countries and begin to crash and pile up, broken, in heaps; or b) a huge number of these things will pile up in some warehouse because the orders still aren't coming in. -
1voteThe Intel Corporation reversed ground Friday and joined the board of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, an ambitious effort to seed the developing world with inexpensive portable computers.
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