$100 Laptop/Child - No More Crappy Hand Crank

[ahmad]

http://www.technologyreview.com/read...94&ch=infotech

The new generators, which will be field-tested beginning this October, abandon the bulky and inefficient hand-crank design featured on an early mock-up of the laptop in favor of a more compact off-laptop design that uses a pull string to spin a small generator. It was developed by Squid Labs, Emeryville, CA, a design and engineering group whose co-founders include several graduates of MIT's Media Lab, where the laptop project originated.

[couppi]

I want one.

My laptop's battery life sucks.

[Zardokk]

I want one of those, too. That's better than my laptop (I wish I was joking).

[nn_step]

cheap laptop==good

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

looks like no real hard drive space... It's only equiped with 500mb of flash memory. Of course, it'll boot fast.

Ryan

[Ubermann]

Full school running superpi races stomping the legs like ing crazy..and dying of thirst.

[ozzimark]

let's hope the string doesn't break

[Thorry]

let's hope the string doesn't break

Well with current technology levels you can get dead cheap string that won't break. If you pull it hard enough to break it the entire laptop falls apart so the string really isn't the issue :P

I wish I could get a string operated power device for my laptop. Too bad my dual core Yonah laptop eats up about 35 watts whilst doing something like notepad. Would be a nice achiefment to get 35 watts of continuous power out of something operated by a string. (And not have somebody pulling the string ever 2 secs :P)

All in: This is a nice project, I don't really know if it will have a positive effect but it's a nice project anyways.

[ahmad]

Well with current technology levels you can get dead cheap string that won't break. If you pull it hard enough to break it the entire laptop falls apart so the string really isn't the issue :P

I wish I could get a string operated power device for my laptop. Too bad my dual core Yonah laptop eats up about 35 watts whilst doing something like notepad. Would be a nice achiefment to get 35 watts of continuous power out of something operated by a string. (And not have somebody pulling the string ever 2 secs :P)

All in: This is a nice project, I don't really know if it will have a positive effect but it's a nice project anyways.

This laptop uses about 2W of power doing normal tasks.. or so it says.

[Nanometer]

Omg! Lets overclock this thing! Just kidding :P. What a great price, I don't want one, but it there sure is a need for it.

[STEvil]

wrap some coils under each key in the keypad so when they are pressed they slide in/out of a gap causing a bit of electrical current.

should generate a watt or two depending how much you type...

[ahmad]

wrap some coils under each key in the keypad so when they are pressed they slide in/out of a gap causing a bit of electrical current.

should generate a watt or two depending how much you type...

So now instead of a $100 laptop, we have a $5000 one

[arisythila]

Great, first a flash light you have a jerk off to get it to work, now a laptop where you gotta pull a string to get it to work.... wtf is going on these days?

~Mike

[JuanFlaiter]

let's hope the string doesn't break

That´s why they changed the crank, because if it break they wouldn´t be able to replace it. Using a string you can replace it even with a shoe lace.

looks like no real hard drive space... It's only equiped with 500mb of flash memory

It´s not made for pr0n storage, it´s made for basic education computing.

[AgentVX]

It´s not made for pr0n storage, it´s made for basic education computing.

You mean pr0n isn't basic education?

[thunderstruck!]

Great, first a flash light you have a jerk off to get it to work, now a laptop where you gotta pull a string to get it to work.... wtf is going on these days?

~Mike

Well it is only $100.