$100 laptops in Colombia: INTERESTING

This nonprofit group that hopes to bring inexpensive laptops to poor kids around the world is now considering the possibility of allowing the $100 machines to be purchased by the general public.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070111/bs_nf/49286

This thing has a Freecharge portable charger, which means wind up charging.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia

By cali373 on Jan 12, 2007, 07:09 in Friendly Talkzone.

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Peter (Moderator) says on Jan 12, 2007, 07:25: That'd be cool, I'd *love* to see these for myself and it'd be nice to see them in Colombia. It's an intriguing project, I hope it works out. Poor but snappy

Azul says on Jan 12, 2007, 08:13: http://laptop.org/ las cosas caen por su propio peso

lampltr says on Nov 27, 2007, 08:11: More info regarding this push forward, but now the red tape being placed my major companies such as Microsoft, and Intel for example....to good of an idea? You be the judge; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094695.stm

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