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Among other things, the computer has a crank to generate power when electricity is not available.

Remember that proposal to bring Third World education into the digital age by developing a $100 laptop computer? Well, the computer has been designed, but it isn't being built in numbers large enough to push the price below $200. The answer, maybe, is to ask idealistic Americans to buy one for themselves and one that can be donated overseas, all for $399. Here's a National Public Radio story on the idea.

But even if this project works and schoolkids from Albania to Zimbabwe have laptops, is it going to really aid their understanding of the world, or are they simply going to learn that it's fun to put Mentos into big bottles of Diet Coke?

Gabcast! Club MediaNote #77