The $100 Laptop for Education

The $100 Laptop for Education: "Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Media Lab have finished the design for the $100 laptop. Check out the images. Note that it can run on AC current, a battery, or be charged using a hand crank, a requirement for rural areas of developing nations. It has table writing capabilities, can be an ebook reader, and has a dual display that can run color or black and white (for use in sunlight). And of course it runs on Linux. So far, five countries have expressed interest in the laptop. Notably absent in the announcement list is the US. While I agree this is a great innovation for developing nations, I'd like to see one distributed to every public school child in the US. Can't we get rid of a few multi-million dollar fighter planes for this?"