One laptop for you, two for them

post from Shiny Shiny on 31 May 2006 03:28:00 AM. © Shiny Shiny

Check your wallet. Got a spare $300? Need a cute little plastic laptop - for your child, say? How about if that $300 bought a laptop for your child and two other children, Third World children, who might otherwise not get a chance at an education? Then you want to stop by Pledgebank and sign the "I will purchase the $100 laptop at $300 but only if 100,000 other will too." pledge. 2,317 people have signed up so far, which is pretty good considering that it's all unofficial - One Laptop Per Child hasn't promised to work with this scheme yet. But if you're into the idea, what harm can it do to say you'd do it if you had the chance? (via Gizmodo. More comment at Hippyshopper.) [GT]