About three days ago I was watching Dateline NBC while I was getting ready to go to a friends birthday party when something caught my eye. There was a new computer that has been created called the X0-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop and even as the Children's Machine.
These computers have been designed to be distributed throughout the world to children in remote locations, in order to provide the children with the access to knowledge.
Although the computers are not able to handle Windows, these rugged, low-power computers contain flash memory instead of a hard drive and use Linux as their operating system. Mobile ad-hoc networking is used to allow many machines Internet access from one connection. They are solar powered, and they eat meat.
As of now the computers cost about $188, however they are trying to bring the price down to $100 by the end of 2008.
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