>Pedal-powered e-mail in the jungle
>As I was doing a search on Google, I stumbled upon a site for a non-profit in Laos that does work to help people out of poverty. I was very impressed with what they’ve done with developing an inexpensive, rugged PC for use in areas that have little or no access to electricity and whose people have low income. The article below from the San Francisco Chronicle talks about the PC:
A human-powered computer links a village in Laos to the Internet by wireless remote.