This is truly amazing. A non profit group out of MIT is putting together a program to distribute a $100 laptop designed for students. The machines will be given to children in a number countries with the idea being that they can take the machines home with them and continue the learning process outside of school.
Despite cost-cutting, these machines will be robust. Negroponte envisions a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop that will use innovative sources of power--including wind-up--and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data. These rugged laptops will be Wi-Fi- and cell-phone-enabled, and have at least four USB ports. Its current specifications are: 500 MHz, 1 Gbyte, 1 megapixel.
That's incredible capability for a $100 machine. This project is really inspiring.