This is one of the coolest things ive heard in a while. I think a student from MIT came up with the idea. They are suppose to be giving away 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 dollars worth of these laptops away to kids. Basicly they are making 100 dollar laptops that will be distributed through out the world to children in poverty stricken countries. Instead of using electricity, these laptops are powered by hand cranks of foot pumps. Pretty sweet. Theses laptops will be able to hold text books and any other e-books the childer can download onto them.
What is the $100 Laptop, really?
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, with a dual-mode display—both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3× the resolution. The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have four USB ports. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things, allows them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data.
Check the site out for more information. It has linux on it, its wireless, has usb ports AND doesnt need an electrical receptical, dam I want one of these bad boys.
