Sub $100 Laptop Design Unveiled

Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs, released the designs for his laptop priced under $100. The laptop will be tough and foldable in different ways, with a hand crank for when there is no power supply. Negroponte came up with the idea for a cheap computer for all after visiting a Cambodian village. His non-profit One Laptop Per Child group plans to have up to 15 million machines in production within a year. A prototype of the machine should be ready in November at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia. Children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, and South Africa will be among the first to get the under-$100 computer, said Professor Negroponte at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT.
Professor Negroponte predicts there could be 100 million to 150 million shipped every year by 2007.

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