One Laptop Per Child Initiatives
Many Schools, Communities, Cities and States are planning and budgeting to make this happen
and in many cases it's already happening.
This site is Dedicated to the study of Computer Workstation Ergonomics as it Pertains to Children using Laptops
(We are working with Dr. Kathleen King at Fordham University to find grant money to fund this study)
Yes, they will be introducing a $100 laptop for worldwide Distribution
It Seems Impossible, but they are about to make it happen - A one hundred dollar laptop for educating the children of the world.
We just need to be careful that we are not causing more harm (Repetitive Strain Injuries) than good.
A connected world is great, but if the kids can't get up and walk around as adults, we missed the point.
Society has yet to see the long term effects of a child who has been hunching over a laptop, since the age of 5.
A quick look around any college campus, will show numerous examples of young bodies hunched over laptops in unsafe postures. Culminating repetitive stain injuries with every keystroke.
They say they don't feel the pain, but you know they will at 40.
And these young adults have only been on the laptop for a few years.
Are we crippling our children, even before they get into the workplace?
Dorm rooms with various, un-standardized desk heights and $40 wooden chairs. Classrooms with barley enough space to balance a notepad and pen, let alone a notebook computer.
Greg Bright - Owner / Inventor - Keynamics Laptop Stands - 04/06/2004
Sponsor
December 6, 2006
Microsoft wants in on $100 laptop for poor children
http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1206-olpc.html
December 5, 2006
Rich Nations May Sponsor $100 Laptops http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/dec2006/gb20061205_733624.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe_more+of+today’s+top+stories
December 6, 2006
Intel enters laptops-for-the-needy market
http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/intel-enters-laptopsfortheneedy-market/2006/12/06/1165080982541.html
October 10, 2006
Libya to Buy 1.2 Million $100 Laptops for Children
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4515
October 6th, 2006
$100 Laptop has High Security
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_Hundred_Dollar_Laptop.html?source=mypi
October 6th, 2006
$100 Laptop Price Increased to $138
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N44/44laptops.html
$10 laptops for children?