Free laptop, but the offer has strings...

As if you needed another reason to wish you were a child in the third world, a program conceived by MIT academics is rolling out a program called "One Laptop per Child." They're looking to give laptops to loads of kids in developing countries.

Pretty neat looking machines - kinda bare bones, with an on board crank generator, and some kind of local wireless network so you don't need the Inter-Web to trade files in the same room, or hut, or what have you.