Negroponte: $100 laptops due next year
M.I.T. Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte showed off the latest prototype of the US$100 computer to a gathering of educators in San Diego Thursday.
Telling the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) that "children are the main agents of change," the author of the best-selling "Being Digital" said he expects millions of the low-cost laptops to be distributed to children in developing countries starting next year, according to a statement issued after the event.
The focal point of Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative -- which aims to produce a $100 laptop computer for distribution to children in developing countries -- features a hand crank that generates the two watts of power the machine needs to operate. It uses a Wi-Fi mesh to connect to the Internet, and runs open-source software. All of the components are chosen for low power usage and low cost to make the portable computers as inexpensive as possible.
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