Monday, December 05, 2005

UN unveils windup laptop

UN unveils wind-up laptop

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17274463%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.htm

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and a leading US IT expert Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the bright green and yellow working prototype of a US$100 ($140) laptop aimed at millions of schoolchildren in poor countries.The robust wind-up laptop with low power consumption is meant to be the backbone of an educational project to distribute the Internet-connected computers at no cost to their future owners.

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