| Imagine something like the following: - Reflective, passive-matrix black and white screen - Low-end (ARM9-based?) system on a chip - 256 meg flash-based hard drive - Custom, miniscule Linux distro consisting mostly of a web browser - Big, old-style NiCd batteries - 1995-style trackball - Wired network adapter; USB host with optional wi-fi addon With some creative engineering, I could imagine this sort of system getting down to the $tens, and with the kind of mass production you'd need to get this to many millions of kids, I think an ultimate $10 pricetag is completely doable. Of course, I'm not actually a product engineer, so perhaps a real one could tighten up my specs (or dash my unrealistic idealism on the rocks).
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