Greate!<br><br>Just my own opinion, I still want the outlook of 100$ laptop likes the one dipicted by <br>Alan in 1972.<br><a href="http://san-diego.siggraph.org/sigkids/dynabook-kids.gif">http://san-diego.siggraph.org/sigkids/dynabook-kids.gif
</a><br><br>Since it is expected to help all the children around the world, especially in developing<br>country. It must support multi-launage. Almost all kids will only use their own native<br>language. I think a hand-writing recognition touch screen is more important than a
<br>keyboard. It's straightforward for a child to trasfer his experience with pencil and paper<br>to a touchpane.<br><br>Most children like colorful things, I still remember how I was joyful when I got a set<br>of watercolor pens in school. (there were only 12 kinds of color). So I don't like the
<br>monochrome screen of this design.<br><br>Cheers.<br>Liu.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Klaus D. Witzel</b> <<a href="mailto:klaus.witzel@cobss.com">klaus.witzel@cobss.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">About the 100$ laptop (not much about software, still in the hw design
<br>stage).<br><br>quote "In January 2005 MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte<br>unveiled the One Laptop Per Child project, an initiative to design and<br>distribute an ultracheap, lightweight, and intuitive portable PC to poor
<br>children throughout the world, at the World Economic Forum. The project<br>called for a highly ruggedized machine equipped with radio antennas for<br>networking in the absence of satellites or towers; a dual-mode display
<br>that shifts to monochrome in bright light; and a way for generating power<br>that facilitates indefinite operation without an electrical outlet. Among<br>those invited to design the laptop was fuseproject owner Yves Behar, who
<br>suggested a compact and sealable form factor that, in his words,<br>"shouldn't look like something for business that's been colored for kids."<br>An earlier version of the laptop featured a handcrank to generate power,
<br>but this was eliminated after it was determined that gripping the crank<br>with one hand and the laptop with the other would cause the machine to<br>shake, placing excessive strain on the hardware. The latest version of the
<br>laptop, priced at about $140, features a kid-friendly design and colors<br>that deter theft; a hollow handle that holds a shoulder strap; built-in<br>VoIP and Skype; 802.11b/g antennas with a range of half a mile; custom
<br>batteries with a five-year lifespan; LEDs in place of a fluorescent<br>backlight; a rubberized plastic shell to absorb shocks; 512 MB of flash<br>memory and 200 GB of storage through a mesh-networked server; a 366 MHz
<br>processor and 128 MB of RAM; a bare-bones version of Redhat Linux; a<br>seamless touchpad that allows handwriting and drawing; and the ability to<br>swivel to ebook mode. Behar designed every laptop component to be<br>
multifunctional: For instance, the computer's antennas are movable "ears"<br>that can swivel down to shield the laptop's ports.<br>" unquote.<br><br>- <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/laptop.html">
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/laptop.html</a><br><br>/Klaus<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>