It's a dude with a Liverpudlian accent. What more do you need?

He sounds like John Lennon from Walk Hard.

That obviously wasn't John Lennon because he wasn't talking shit about anyone.

If the family lacks electricity, how would they power the laptop?

Actually, I think they have hand-cranks, and also can be jiggered to run off a car battery.

They come with a hand crank like those emergency weather radios. The project also aims to allow the adopting countries to build their own factories to produce the laptops. It's really an interesting attempt at bootstrapping economies in the "third world".

In emerencies it can be used for food or music and if you shake your head it's a snow globe. You can type equations and it's solved by magic janitors. It can talk to dead people and dead people can talk to you, if they are famous. If you say "bloody mary" to it three times the screen turns red, but you die.

Is there a new version of the laptop? The ones put out last year don't have the hand-crank or a touch screen.

AFAIK there's 2 versions, the one for westerners doesn't have the bonus items like hand crank or solar panels. Presumably the ones you buy for poor African families will come with the generator and solar panel.

They have wireless, and they automatically network with similar wifi spots so if 3 people are in a villiage with these, they're automatically in a network. That's immediately a great thing, because a town would only need one internet source, and even without it, the town is networked. That alone makes it valuable for a villiage that wouldn't have telephone service.

From now on, whenever I see a digitally ressurected celebrity shilling something, I'll think of it as a zombie ghoast.

HI STARVING AFRICAN CHILDREN! YOU'RE POOR!

15 years from now those kids will be holding the nation Cyberhostage. One out of every thousand geeks is gonna be a super programmer hacker savant, and we're empowering millions of people here. We need to start being NICE to Africa.