A Whole New World of Laptops--11.12.07
25.September.2007 21:47 Filed in: Global Tech
Over the last few years, a combination of do-gooders,
computer science professors, and major corporations
have combined to develop and begin producing an
expensive laptop computer that would actually
function in the real life conditions of rural life in
the world’s “least developed countries.” Dubbed the
$100 laptop, this machine would could not rely on
constant electricity, and it had to be extremely
rugged, all while costing a fraction of what the
least expensive portable computers cost at big box
retailers. Successful these engineers have been in
the development of their machine, but now they
continue to struggle in raising funds to pay for the
machines and the government-based orders to supply
them to schools and children.
Yesterday, a shrewd marketing strategy was announced to sell these computers in the United States, 1 for 2. That’s right! You pay for two computers, but you only take one home. The other goes off to Haiti!
Read about it on the BBC website!
More info on this amazing computer from the BBC!
Yesterday, a shrewd marketing strategy was announced to sell these computers in the United States, 1 for 2. That’s right! You pay for two computers, but you only take one home. The other goes off to Haiti!
Read about it on the BBC website!
More info on this amazing computer from the BBC!
