November 25, 2005
MIT Researchers Unveil a $100 Laptop Designed to Benefit Children Worldwide
Saying they hope to bring every child in the world a computer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have unveiled a laptop that will cost around $100, run on batteries that can be recharged by turning a crank, and connect to the Internet wirelessly by piggybacking on the connection of a nearby user.
The machine made its debut last week at the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society, in Tunis, Tunisia. Nicholas Negroponte, director of MIT's Media Lab, showed
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