OLPC

And I know that y'all are erudite and wit-it enough to have already heard of this, but I just got into a discussion with a co-worker regarding the "One Laptop Per Child" initiative which I think is super-duper cool.

The laptop itself, which has a target price of $100/ea., is powered by a hand-crank (five minutes of spin-up by your average pre-teen will give you a ton of computing time), uses a modified Fedora Core 6 OS, has built-in wi-fi connectivity and firmware/software that automatically detects and creates ad-hoc user networks which dynamically sniff out the most advantageous route to the internet, and a ton of really really really really really really really really cool other stuff.

And that's just the 'top itself.

What this is promising to do for children in the developing world is staggering.

You need to check it out.