The ever expanding accomplishments that are made in the world of computers once again astounds me.
When he saw the need for it Nicholas Negroponte sieved the day. He saw the need of kids in an electronic world to be able to use a computer in their schools. He worked at it and came up with what is now the "One Laptop per Child" organization. He managed to aquire the pieces needed and managed to acquire price deals that enabled him to make fully functional laptop computers for as little as $100.
This was a feat that no one thought possible, and yet, he did it. And thousands of kids, who would not have one, now do thanks to him and his organization. This is a truly amazing feat.
That being great enough, OLPC has been paying attention and are trying to bring a new and formidable task to become a reality in the next coming years.
They want to build a tablet pc for less than $100. In fact they are setting the bar as low as to $75 dollars. They want to build an open source tablet pc with touch screen, wifi and a camera with an induction charger.
I don't know of many cameras alone that could less than $100. My first question that I wanted to know did not have an answer. They did not have the specifications for it, but by all common sense, it would have to do the same things the laptop can do, so I can show the spews for that.
CPU 433 MHz
256 ddr3 RAM
1 gig of flash memory
That is not bad for $75
That is amazing to me; this organization has found the need and supplied it. I am also sure that they are fully capable of implementing a new set of hardware for it. Figuring moors law; I would guess that they would be able to increase all specs by at least %75. But even left as is, that is a nice little gadget.
I remember an old pc that I put together in school. It was an old 386 with 64MB of RAM. It cost me about $100 dollars. This was not even a laptop. That was an old tower, 3.5 inch floppy drive, cd rom drive.
The amazing part is that I am not that old, this was only about 8 years ago. This is a staple to how far we have come with technology. Its things like this company that tests what can be done that I really appreciate what already is and where it is going.
for links to other articles I've written.
http://rlwoodsiii.blogspot.com/for the original article and a video of the proposed device
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-2000...