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LED World Map

Do you or your family like to keep track of where you go while learning a geography lesson? If so, check out the LED World Map or LED USA Map for a fun and interesting new way to keep track of your travels with technology.

The framed maps are 35.5″x 25.5″x .5″ with a 9′ long Power Cord. The markers come in 8 brilliant colors and include 100 LEDs and 2 blinking home-base markers.

This is just one of Hi-Tec Art‘s “fun with technology” products.

Cheapest Laptop – now at $130

Taiwanese company, Carapelli Ltd., is selling what is currently being billed as the world’s cheapest laptop. The Impulse NPX-9000 laptop is a tiny guy in more than 1 respect – 7″ screen, 500Mhz CPU (brand?), 128MB RAM, 1GB flash storage. It naturally comes with Linux and a bunch of (probably open source) productivity software. Just one caveat – you need to buy at least 100 to get it at the $130 price.

Despite the fact that Linux can run pretty nicely (without a window manager) on 128MB of memory, running a GUI and a modern browser will probably result in a slow crawler of a machine. We recommend you look to spend north of $400 to get a decent machine that you wouldn’t want to toss out the window on day 2.

25% of the planet online in 2012

Perhaps you’re thinking that # should be higher, but then again, this
isn’t really surprising, is it? After all, 2012 is only a few years
away, and even in the country of the Internet’s birth (the US), uptake is less
than 75%.

Appropriately enough, the highest growth will be in high economic growth/’emerging’ countries like China, Russia, India and Brazil (BRIC).

Now if only we could get even 0.1% of those 1.8 billion people to come visit our sites. 😉

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