Comments for 1 Million Linux- and Crank-Powered US$ 100 Laptops Coming to Brazil at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:48:30 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/5756/1/#pc_4129 If this product was available to the public, for sale, wouldn\'t it help the financial goal toward computers for all children? I live off-grid and would buy one myself immediately. - Guest Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:15:49 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/5756/1/#pc_3296 Negroponte now says the computer would break if it had a crank on it. In fact when Kopfe Annan tried turning the crank in Tunisia last year it snapped off in his hand! Now it will have a \"power brick\" that sits on the floor and has a treadle pedal, vaguely reminiscient of a motorless sewing machine\'s foot-power treadle; the child need only keep up a rocking motion with their foot to recharge or power the unit. Unfortunately these treadle-pumped generators sound like someone torturing a radio-controlled car; imagine a whole school of them yowling at once! - Guest Mon, 01 May 2006 01:31:50 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/5756/1/#pc_2594 No... that means the number of neurons in your brain... - Guest Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:54:14 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/5756/1/#pc_2586 If the government wants to buy 1 million laptops, does that mean that Brazil has only 1 million children ???? - Guest Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:04:56 +0100