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5/11/11
Wow! A computer for $25?
These guys think they have done it – plug their USB based chip into a screen or TV and a keyboard and you will have a basic computer. They hope this will help train a new generation of young computer literate DIY programmers and give computer access to the millions of people who cannot afford current products. Well worth watching.
I wonder what the techies on Site Jabber make of it?
For me (non-techie, I just drive the things) - amazing!
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Jeremy G. That's a very cool idea. It reminds me a bit of the ambition behind the $100 Laptop Project (One Laptop Per Child project it was renamed after they couldn't get the price low enough), but that one never quite lived up to the hype: http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.laptop.org
But in many ways this could be much more practical since many poor regions already have TVs and $25 is a lot less than $100. It would be great to get it in the hands of kids and see what they can do...(although this particular adult was given the opportunity by his mother to learn to program at the age of 5 but never took her up on it :)
Michael L. very interesting idea -- takes a relatively expensive component (the display) out of the equation to get the costs down and just focuses on the interface between a cheap processor and some basic peripherals.
i agree that this could have a big impact on children in third world countries. it already looks more advanced than the macs they made us program LOGO with in middle school. but i think the applications of this extend quite a bit farther than programming and computer science -- just giving children access to wikipedia on a television will change their lives for the better.