One laptop per child, an awsome program Options

[CelicaST_CALI]

ok well,actually myspace showed this to me,i have heard rumors about this,it is a program to supplies laptops to poor kids in poor countries that cant afford even textbooks.This laptop has all the normal stuff,if i manly for the internet,it can view,photos,videos,play music,you can use a word program and much more.This laptop also has no moving parts,no fan,hard drive,and it comes with an amazing power source...anything!!!You get a crank,a foot pedal,or a pull cord to charge,you can also buy a solar charger if needed.It has a new type of batteries that has no toxic metals,did i mention it only weighs 3 pounds? And if you were to buy this laptop in America,one is shipped to you,and one is also shipped to a person or kid in another country at no charge(no its not an advertisement).I personally think this is one of the best things we can do to help other countries.

myspace page(with vid)
http://www.myspace.com/olpc

actual page with specs/features and what not:
http://laptop.org/laptop/

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Dec 19, 2007 - 1:19 AM

[lx130]

i was watching this on 60 minutes... i think its a great idea... especially this day in age... but the one thing i hate are teh criticiizers.... that hate the total idea of helping the poor areas with a better and much faster way of education...

some of them are saying we are depriving them of actual textbook reading... that reading from a computer is going to let the depend on tech...which i think some people are just not into the whole future tech helping our world thing

This post has been edited by lx130: Dec 19, 2007 - 2:47 AM