Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com writes:

A low-cost computer for the masses moved one step closer to reality on Wednesday.

Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop targeted at children in developing nations.

Negroponte, who laid out his original proposal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, said MIT and his nonprofit group, called One Laptop Per Child, is in discussions with five countries–Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa–to distribute up to 15 million test systems to children.

In addition, Massachusetts is working with MIT on a plan to distribute the laptops to schoolchildren, Negroponte said.

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I love this quote from another story on the MIT $100 laptop:”If [Nergoponte’s] successful, it’ll probably put him on track for a Nobel Peace Prize as well.” Move over Microsoft, Dell. The $100 PC cometh. From MIT

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