Playpower presents the $12 computer - "Let's Go 8 Bit!"
The Playpower team gave by far the most dynamic on the spot demo I saw at ETech 2009 - for more pictures see here, and for more about their presentation here:
"Half the world lives on less than $2.50 per day and has minimal access to education. The Playpower Foundation is using a radically affordable $12 computer, based on an old video game console technology (now in the public domain) as an 8-bit platform for learning games. Global poverty meets 8-bit design constraints--with only an open source community of 8-bit hackers in the middle?"
Also check out this excellent Wired article on Playpower by Priya Ganapati.
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