Introducing the XO laptop – you can browse the web using Firefox, engage in online chat, play educational games and even play music. For only $100.
What?!
Yes, you read right. For only $100 (that’s around R1000). This is the OLPC – the One Laptop Per Child initiative that aims to let children in undeveloped countries, such as in Africa and the Americas, the chance to experience technology. The project is due to release later this month.
But the laptop will not be used for children only. OLPC has introduced a system where you can choose to buy two laptops – one for yourself, and the other to be donated to an underprivileged child.
The XO laptop also features an innovative power method. If, say, the laptop is in use where there is no power supply, the child is able to use a wind-up power system to power the laptop. This is just one of three ways to power this marvel of a computer.
You can read more about the OLPC by visiting the official website – http://laptop.org.
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