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MIT $100 Laptop

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

MIT's $100 Laptop [5/5] Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop targeted at children in developing nations.

MIT's $100 Laptop [1/5] Negroponte, who laid out his original proposal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, said MIT and his nonprofit group, called One Laptop Per Child, is in discussions with five countries — Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa — to distribute up to 15 million test systems to children.

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The $100 laptop moves closer to reality | CNET News.com