A few months back I had talked to you all about the $100 VoIP enabled laptop? Adding on to it, its first prototype was released under the One Laptop per Child project. Though it is called the $100 laptop but it would cost around $150 for creating it. This is certainly a disheartening news and higher costs is being attributed to the increased cost of the component such as display of the laptop and battery but don't worry as Walter Bender, President of software, OLPC stated that efforts were being made to bring back the cost to $100 by the year 2008.

This laptop is Nicholas Negroponte vision who had stated his thoughts at the Word Economic Forum in January 2005 regarding this laptop for improving the education standards in the developing countries. Plans are in full swing to build B2, the second prototype and by the second quarter of the 2007 these laptops would be shipped to Argentina, Brazil, Libya and Nigeria. Around 1.2 million pieces would be shipped to Libya and another four million to other countries.

I sincerely hope that this project meets success as the life of a number of children is at stake in the developing countries and this laptop would certainly go a long way towards building their future.