It Takes a Village

There’s been so much written about the $100 laptop, for so long, that’d we kinda already thought it was approved, manufactured and shipped to the non-Brangelinated corners of Namibia. We also thought the hand-crank model above on the left was a go, especially because it’s the prototype still featured on the MIT website.

In this month’s Wired, however, “The Laptop Crusade” adds an interesting twist to the story–that the design project was yanked from Design Continuum and given to fuseproject‘s

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