You read right. First came the $100 One Laptop Per Child windup laptop project, now researchers in India believe they can make one even cheaper, try $10!

This is according to a proposal winding it’s way through the Indian government which believes a laptop computer can be made now for as low as $10.

That means that ten times as many computers could conceivably be made available to poor and underprivileged communities in India and other third world nations than the UN approved OLPC Negroponte models.

Providing support for the project, is Semiconductor Complex, a state-sponsored designer and manufacturer of integrated circuits who stand to win any potential contract for the hardware needed to build it.

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The Brazilian music label Trama has launched a Brazilian Music Channel on Joost, and is planning other channels to launch soon. Trama is known in Brazil to use different methods and approaches to market its products and artists, and being the first content provider from Brazil to launch on Joost is a natural step for them.
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Do you love eating Hot Dogs? If so you might be interested in the Hot Diggity Dogger, a toaster that has holes for the Hot Dogs’s wieners and buns! This is a fun and simple way of having a delicious Hot Dog at any time you wish. This toaster can make two Hot Dogs at the same time.
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Worried that Superman might tear your lock off and nick your push bike, fear not with the Kryptonite bike chain (sleeve).

Kryptonite New York Chain with EV Disc Lock and custom JACK SPADE nylon procective cover silkscreened with a topographic map grapic. The Kryptonite New York Chain comes with a lifetime key registration and limited lifetime warranty. Replacement keys available.

Available from Jack Spade (cover $25 or including chain for $144), found via aquire.

There are so many options around if you are one of those people whom for some reason or another wish to monitor your heart rate. It may be that you are an athlete who likes check their heart for recovery purposes or maybe there is an health issue and a heart rate monitor is an essential even possibly a life saving piece of equipment. Either way getting the most accurate heart rate monitor is a must.
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Using a laptop can be an exercise of patience, especially when it comes to navigation just through the touchpad or pointing stick alone, while others find a welcome relief through the mouse. What happens when you can actually navigate through the entire laptop without using both the keyboard and mouse? BT researchers in the U.K. are doing exactly just that, working on an adapter known as the BT Balance that empowers users of laptops and tablet PCs to access a myriad of applications, menus, as well as other commands simply by moving or tilting the laptop. This reminds me of the Nintendo Wii controller to a certain extent, but let’s explore how such a navigation mechanism works.

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Ask any self respecting gamer as to why they’d prefer to get their gaming fix on the desktop and you’ll get the same answer – superior performance in every sense of the word. Desktop computers have much more horsepower, and when it comes to games, you can’t really argue with a top end video card which is far too large to squeeze into a standard laptop design. Magma has decided to do something about this situation, offering an easy to use device which enables your notebook to experience the joys and wonder of a desktop-only PCI Express card. Known as the ExpressBox1, this device looks very much like an external drive enclosure save the fact that is was specifically designed to hold a PCI-E video card.

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It premiers in 10 weeks, but the writers, animators and director of “The Simpsons Movie” are still working out the basics… including the storyline. It’s hard to believe, especially since they first started working on the screenplay in late 2003. The deadline is going to be pretty tight, but the writers and animators of “The Simpsons” have assured audiences that “The Simpsons Movie” will be released on July 27 (US) no matter what.

What can we expect to see in the movie? Judging from snippets of movie trailers, news releases and Internet chatter, the plot seems to involve the town of Springfield dealing with an environmental disaster that Homer accidentally starts. Further details are scarce, but look for a giant mob scene that will include every Simpsons character ever. Also, apparently Homer has a pet pig in the movie.

It will be interesting to see what they come up with before July 27th.

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