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The $100 laptop, while helping bring technology to impoverished children everywhere, is also creating quite a stir in the technology industries....
In inner-city Philadelphia, a pilot program is arming its high schoolers with laptops. But in countries like Norway-and increasingly in the...
The fight between Intel and Nicolas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child is heating up. If you haven't heard, OLPC has designed a very basic laptop...
India has decided that it will not be making any orders for the $100 laptop, Nicholas Negroponte's machine that was designed to give children in...
The people behind "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop]One Laptop Per Child[/url]" were hoping to make a $100 machine for children in...
Barbara of Framingham sent us this poorly designed teapot. The top falls off when it's pouring, the shape doesn't allow for water to circulate...
Don Milani di Rivoli elementary school in Turin, Italy, will eschew the use of text books in favor of water-proof, mini-laptops for its 60...
This elegantly animated parable of pot and prohibition comes from the folks at Black Mustache. With Proposition 19 on the November ballot in...
For 4/20 (a date we hear has meaning for marijuana enthusiasts), we take a look at all the electricity it takes to grow America's indoor pot.
Students design a brilliant prototype for a recyclable laptop in an effort to reduce the enormous amounts of e-waste generated each year.
This article is part of The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down, from GOOD Issue 18. You can read more of the guide here. Here are a...
Colorado is one of the 14 states that have legalized medical marijuana, but I think Boulder is the first city that might require dispensaries to...
A new solar laptop could free computers from their power cords. And in the future, the pressure created by typing could be used to charge batteries.
I’m not saying that sandwiches incited the founding of the United States, but you can’t deny the correlation.
At this past weekend's Techonomy Conference 2010 in Lake Tahoe, One Laptop per Child Founder Nicholas Negroponte answered a fundamental question...
Eric Holder says he will keep enforcing the Controlled Substances Act. So what will actually change if California legalizes pot?
Since 2001, Maine's invested in laptops for every student. Now they're leading the world in tech education.
There's a bill in the House that would let kids with drug possession convictions get federal financial aid for college again (they haven't been...
One-to-one laptop programs in America are still novelties. In Uruguay, all elementary students have had a laptop since 2009.
Forget astronaut ice-cream: This pouch of Beef Pot Roast is the real deal—a leftover from NASA's Apollo lunar program—and it's currently on sale.
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