teamnoir (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} teamnoir) wrote,@ 2007-11-12 10:28:00 |
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One Laptop Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child project is fascinating. They're aiming for a $100 unit, no moving parts, innovative UI, low power, entirely open source, durable enough for children in third worlds. Technically, it's interesting and has a high overlap with my current professional projects. Socially, it's also very interesting. And economically/politically it's also fascinating.
They haven't hit the $100 mark, though. And in order to start producing the units, they're collecting donations. The interesting thing is that for $399, they'll sell you two units - one will go to a third world country as a donation and the other will be sent to you before xmas.
It's not clear whether these units will be useful for anything at all, even web browsing, even games for small children. But the project is fascinating and I'm positive that these things are going to be way hot and super novel around silicon valley for a while.
In any case, please give some thought to this project and consider a donation at this time. I've already paid for one pair. And I'd be happy to have at least one more in my possession. So if you're up for a partial donation and don't really care to keep a machine around, let me know and maybe we can go halves or something.
The One Laptop Per Child project is fascinating. They're aiming for a $100 unit, no moving parts, innovative UI, low power, entirely open source, durable enough for children in third worlds. Technically, it's interesting and has a high overlap with my current professional projects. Socially, it's also very interesting. And economically/politically it's also fascinating.
They haven't hit the $100 mark, though. And in order to start producing the units, they're collecting donations. The interesting thing is that for $399, they'll sell you two units - one will go to a third world country as a donation and the other will be sent to you before xmas.
It's not clear whether these units will be useful for anything at all, even web browsing, even games for small children. But the project is fascinating and I'm positive that these things are going to be way hot and super novel around silicon valley for a while.
In any case, please give some thought to this project and consider a donation at this time. I've already paid for one pair. And I'd be happy to have at least one more in my possession. So if you're up for a partial donation and don't really care to keep a machine around, let me know and maybe we can go halves or something.
