Fresh off the mugshot wire, a review of the hi-tech high points of 2006 by columnist Bill Thompson at BBC News puts the XO Laptop in the driver seat:

The really significant change this year was the successful development of the Children’s Machine, which started life as the ‘$100 laptop’, a project to create a low-cost computer that governments can give to children around the world.

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