One hundred dollar laptop in pilot stage

Submitted by Jonathan Hendler on May 18, 2007 - 2:03pm.

Running on a custom GNU/Linux platform, the One Laptop per Child program came to Uruguay in this article carried by Yahoo.

The computers are designed for children, boast extremely low electricity consumption, a pulley for hand-generated power, 1 gigabyte of flash memory, built-in wireless networking and a screen with indoor and outdoor reading modes.
"The laptops all talk to each other automatically, have voice chat, file sharing and all that can be done between laptops without Internet," Bender said of the design. "If any laptop has access to the Internet all can share it."

Like a my computer needs the internet to be interesting to me, the laptops wirelessly connect to your "friends" if they are near by. PSPs and Nintendo's systems for kids are pretty hot too, but don't have the mission of making people's lives better. Sort of like us and those other Drupal shops. :)