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I smile everytime i think about the possibile impact this could have on...on everything.

Windup laptops aim to bridge digital divide

U.N. summit focuses on spreading technology

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A U.N. technology summit was focused Thursday on bringing more communications, including Internet access, to developing countries where the cost has been too high and the technology too low-tech.

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"The InfoYouth Center represents the type of program that effectively addresses education and development issues to date," he said.

Late Wednesday, a text-book sized laptop boasting wireless network access and a hand-crank to provide electricity was unveiled by Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman of MIT Media Lab.

The machines will sell for $100, making them accessible to millions of school-aged children worldwide, he said.

"These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told reporters after the machine was unveiled...

This little beauty here might be just the thing, just the thing indeed. Just $100 dollars a pop and one of these babies will be in every third world home by next x-mas. A world of information in a compact affordable form- the perfect stocking stuffer.