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$100 wind-up laptops for the developing world?


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Has anyone heard of wind up laptops?

Heres the story...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) -- Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are designing a durable laptop computer that will cost about $100.

MIT Media Lab leader Nicholas Negroponte hopes to give the machines, which would be durable, flexible and self-reliant, to needy children around the world.

The machine's A-C adapter would double as a carrying strap, and a hand crank would power them when there's no electricity. They'd be foldable into more positions than traditional notebook PCs, and carried like slim lunchboxes.

http://edition.cnn.c.../mit.laptop.ap/

Theres also another story about it here...

http://hardware.sili...39152862,00.htm
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