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Paper Computing Among the Young
PpCNerds writes: "On April 10th, 2002, Dearborn High School students Mark Stanislav, Luke Duncan, and James Turner won First Place Gold in the Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit with their 'Paper Computer' Practical Application project. Many may remember the Paper Computer from past Slashdot and Wired Magazine articles. With the help from friend and Computer Engineering student Alex Fisher, who is also quite handy at this sort of thing (Wearable Computer), the group of geeks were able to turn this project into a success in the eyes of SEFMD judges with 2 and 1/2 months of research and contacting people in the field. This win takes Mark, Luke, and James to the Intel sponsored International competition in Louisville, Kentucky."
Good thoughts, but a bit impractical for some of us.
I just last week decommissioned my old Pentium 90Mhz. I tried to give to my local public school, but it was far too slow for them (this is not a snooty suburban school either, its probably 80% low-income students).
I guess I'll just recycle it, but it seems these days "recycle" is just a synonym for "dump somewhere in china."
If anything, I feel inclined to upgrade more often as a result, so that I may give away older equipment before it becomes completely worthless.