Re: Jim Gettys on writing software for the new "one laptop per child" system

davidhbigelow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://www.gettysfamily.org/wordpress/?p=11


Cute general idea - But how would a child in the back planes of Uganda
manage to get power to use it? 

It has a crank to charge the batteries.

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