Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco — in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency.
›› Richard Stallman rips into the One Laptop Per Child project
The Chumby has a touch screen, a 350mhz processor and a bunch of other hardware that’s held together by Linux. It displays widgets from the interweb, plays internet radio, has WiFi, an accelerometer, a squeeze sensor, small speakers, microphones and USB ports built-in. It is completely customizable and the developers have laid bare the hardware and software. It’s extremely cool, though I do find it a little ugly in that cute way. It has people raving about it and it costs $179.95.
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