$100 Laptop

It's a dream come true, but it won't be marketed in the "first world". This is an excellent and beautiful piece of technology only meant for developing countries. There is more information and pictures at the official website:

The $100 laptop is being developed by One Laptop per Child (OLPC), an independent, non-profit association based on the "constructionist" theories of learning pioneered by Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay [...] Its founding members are AMD, Brightstar, Google, News Corporation, and Red Hat, all of whom have funded both OLPC and the MIT Media Lab.

The proposed $100 machine (see the picture) will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data. This rugged laptop will be WiFi-enabled and have USB ports galore. Its current specifications are: 500MHz, 1GB, 1 Megapixel.

Although I support this fantastic idea, I foresee it would not take a long time before we can get those laptops from the black market or something. Many pople will pay more than $100 to get one and those children and their parents ain't stupid either not to sell it. This is how "our" capitalist world actually works. What a shame.