From the folks who brought you the Jerk-O-Meter, M.I.T. Media Labs has unveiled a $100 windup laptop. The idea is to get computers in the hands of children and others in the developing world. It's supposedly tough and foldable, and it looks small. That's what Buzz calls distributed computing.
Discuss: Hold on, need to wind up my laptop
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