This is pretty phracking cool.

DDL on 2/11/2012 at 19:11

Of course, it won't seem quite so great when some ethiopian kid eventually grows up to lead a giant army of chinese girls...

Peanuckle on 9/11/2012 at 08:50

Throw these boxes everywhere, pack in a solar battery charger, improve the world.

Not like we don't crap tablets out by the ton. If this actually took off, we could see an increase in literacy worldwide.

And Apple would have the most amazing publicity campaign ever.

Nuth on 9/11/2012 at 09:21

Very cool. I wonder what keeps them from being stolen from the kids.

demagogue on 9/11/2012 at 10:19

There's one for each kid in the village. And it's a village. Everybody knows everybody. Life works differently there.

Nuth on 9/11/2012 at 11:51

Quote Posted by demagogue

There's one for each kid in the village. And it's a village. Everybody knows everybody. Life works differently there.

Still figured an adult might get the idea of trading a tablet for livestock or something. Maybe there's no trade outside the village though. They sound pretty isolated. (http://www.kurzweilai.net/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves)