$100 Laptop

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profitable organisation dedicated to the research and development of a $100 laptop, a technology that would revolutionise how children in developing worlds are educated. This initiative was launched by faculty members at the MIT Media Lab in January 2005 and moved ever closer to realisation this week by unveiling the first working prototype at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting (view Flickr Set)

The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things will allow them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbours, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops will use innovative power including a Trevor Baylis wind-up radio method and will be able to do mostly everything except store huge amounts of data. The release date has not yet been announced.

Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Friday, 26th of May 2006 Permalink Comment (0)