According to Computer World the “One Laptop Per Child” project (OLPC) is experimenting with an ancient power source, know to have been used before recorded history began: the friendly neighborhood cow.

Their current design creates current using a dynamo from a Fiat engine, and what looks like a modified bicycle with a crank. I hope the methane emissions and biological waste don’t become a problem.

OLPC’s XO laptop uses Linux software, which has made Microsoft scramble to create a low-power and low-cost version of Windows, to prevent millions of poor people from becoming more familiar with a rival operating system. Down with the Borg! Booo, … or should I say, Moooo!

Image by Philippe Tarbouriech, used under a Creative Commons license

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