Your new computer: a few inches long, $25

[Sysman]

How about this then? A paper thin flexible phone.

BBC News - Flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut

Mayeb one will be able tyo get a phone tattooed on soon.

Tattoo on the bum!

Invented specially for those who talk out of their arse all the time.

[Sysman]

Because $25 is equal to six months' income where you live?

Which again makes the HDMI option look ridiculous.

[PAH]

Which again makes the HDMI option look ridiculous.

Yeah, feels more like a marketing/publicity exercise than something we'll actually see 'out in the wild' doing what is intended.

Reminds me of that $100 laptop. How succesful is/was that?

Wouldn't suprise me if this is a stunt to raise investment capital and the 'good cause' becomes just a sideline while all the money raised is pissed away on other less humanitarian stuff, such as Bollinger.

[Sysman]

Yeah, feels more like a marketing/publicity exercise than something we'll actually see 'out in the wild' doing what is intended.

Reminds me of that $100 laptop. How succesful is/was that?

Wouldn't suprise me if this is a stunt to raise investment capital and the 'good cause' becomes just a sideline while all the money raised is pissed away on other less humanitarian stuff, such as Bollinger.

Yep. A bit like some of the "Green" technology.

IPO's, Government grants and subsidies you say?

Yep. A lot like some of the "Green" technology.

That's why I find this one a bit disappointing. I am sure there are a lot of uses many of us could put it to if it hit the market at that $25 price.

[NickFitz]

Reminds me of that $100 laptop. How succesful is/was that?

Over 1,800,000 of them shipped so far.

Wouldn't suprise me if this is a stunt to raise investment capital and the 'good cause' becomes just a sideline while all the money raised is pissed away on other less humanitarian stuff, such as Bollinger.

Sometimes, being cynical makes one look insightful. Other times, it just makes one look an arse.

[SueEllen]

Which again makes the HDMI option look ridiculous.

No doubt there will be a campaign which means the likes of us in the rich West will have to fund the HDMI cable, converter and/or the keyboard there as the recipient will just have to pay for the PC.

I'm not being cynical btw as quite a few charitable projects in the developing world do this.

They have found that if you make people give a contribution to the item/service they want they tend to use it properly and value it.

Plus this would have been better than the Labour project in the UK of giving "poor" families laptops.

[Sysman]

Which again makes the HDMI option look ridiculous.

Don't you just love incomplete reporting?

This gizmo has Composite as well as HDMI video output

More info:

700MHz ARM11
128MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O
Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)