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The $100 Laptop
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The $100 laptop, designed for under privileged kids in developing nations may well gain attention for its innovative new user interface, called Sugar.
The laptop is already famous for it’s hand-cranked power source and funky green and white casing, but its software is what’s really catching attention.
The so-called $100 laptop that's being designed for school children in developing nations is known for its bright green and white plastic shell, its power-generating hand crank, and for Nicholas Negroponte, the technology futurist who dreamed it up and who tirelessly promotes it everywhere from Bangkok to Brasilia.
What has not received much attention is the graphical user interface—the software that will be the face of the machine for the millions of children who will own it. In fact, the user interface, called Sugar, may turn out to be one of the more innovative aspects of a project that has already made breakthroughs in mesh networking and battery charging since Negroponte unveiled the concept two years ago.
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