Posts Tagged ‘charity’
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Give and Take, the $100 laptop
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I’ve spoken about the One Laptop Per Child project before. It is a wonderful initiative founded by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. The goal is to promote world education by constructing affordable laptop PCs, best known as the $100 dollar laptops, and branded as the “XO laptops”, and delivering them to children in developing countries.
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How awesome is that!? Our grandparents ROCK!
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
And I mean that literally! A new rock band “The Zimmers” released their absolutely amazing version of The Who’s “My Generation”. About 40 incredible people, many of whom in the eighth decade of their lives on this planet and upwards sing about their generation.
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Buy two $100 laptops, get one!
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project featuring the Children’s Machine, $100 laptop has announced possibly making their product available to the public. The $100 laptop was announced in 2005 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. An initiative to build cheap yet fully functional laptop computers to be distributed to and used by [...]
