MIT's $100 Laptop

I remember reading about the MIT project proposing to create a laptop for no more than $100 sometime within the last year or two. At first I wondered if it could be done at this time with prices of technology how they are. I then thought, "Well if anyone could do this, the brilliant minds at MIT are probably the ones who would." - and they sure have. This project, known as "One Laptop Per Child", has been labeled as an education project, not a laptop project. OLPC was designed to provide technology to children across the world, especially in developing nations. OLPC recently took an important step forward in recent talks with Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, and South Africa, hoping to test 15 million of these computers with schoolchildren. These laptops will be open-source, and will basically be able to do what more expensive computers can do, except storing large amounts of data. For more information on this amazing endeavor, check out MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop, as well as a recent article by cnet.com.