$100 Laptop or $200 Ipod

$100 laptop

This could possible be the coolest thing I have ever heard of. Open-source education, wind up computers, peer-to-peer mesh networks. The possiblities are amazing. All you need is one person attached to the internet and then everyone is who is attached to that guy. Sure small hard-drive space is bad, but that can be over come but shared massive hard-drive centers, hint Google is backing this also. This is taking the old dumb terminal out of geeks basments, re-inventing it and then spitting it back out. People would, and still do, have all of there data on one central server, file server, then all you need to do is log into that server and you have all of your files. With the data transfer speeds of today that would be easy. Perhaps the day is coming where we can rent hard drive space by the tera-byte. This would mean then that most app's would be only thin clients, only a little bit of the proccessing done on local machine, with app-servers running the world.

This tech also has soem very inovative features. Such as it is made of rubber, or something like it, so that when it is closed it is basically water proof. I mean come on that is cool. I want one so bad.