Most life-enhancing item

$100 laptop by Yves Behar

For the last two years, Yves Béhar has been working with Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, developing a laptop that will be sold exclusively to governments in the developing world for $100 and then given to school children. Not only have they achieved a miracle of costing, their laptop makes all existing models look lazy, cumbersome and stupid.

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10 January 2008 | Technology