OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops 189
An anonymous reader writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) is toying with a novel source of power for its low-cost XO laptops: cows.
"We plan to drive a dynamo (taken from an old Fiat) through a system of belts and pulleys using cows/cattle," wrote OLPC's Arjun Sarwal, in an October 21 e-mail posted to one of the group's discussion lists.
Sarwal and others are now finalizing the design of the cow-powered generator."
Something doesn't smell right (Score:5, Funny)
There is no way they can get cows to power laptops, there is no way they would stay in their wheel.
Now, if they suggested a beowolf cluster of hamsters then I would believe it.
As it stands this article is just a load of bull.
Cow Power (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cow Power (Score:2, Funny)
Cow Cafe (Score:5, Funny)
I can see it now
Later that evening he is having a romantic chat with his girlfriend in the next village. Things get intense and the low power warning comes on her laptop. They are cut off as a great big cowpat soils his keyboard.
(I could have gone further, but hey, this is a family show, right?)
GNU (Score:4, Funny)
You know, I bet you could use a gnu just as well as a cow. Same electrical power, higher meta factor.
"You're using a gnu to power a GNU-powered device? My mind just exploded!"
Re:Something doesn't smell right (Score:5, Funny)
One Cow per Child Project (OCPC) (Score:2, Funny)
(OCPC) needs your charity donation to save children from cowlessness. For only $1 a day you
can feed a cow and make a child happy! Thank you for your attention.
Re:Have you mooed today? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cows don't walk much (Score:5, Funny)
Any of us who've got this "girlfriend" you speak of should already have her working on our dynamo.
At least that's what I call it.
Re:Cows don't walk much (Score:5, Funny)
A girlfriend is a girl that wants to be just friend. Every girl a slashdotter encounters is like that, no need to hit wikipedia for that.
Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)
aptitude moo
aptitude -v moo
aptitude -vv moo
aptitude -vvv moo
aptitude -vvvv moo
aptitude -vvvvv moo
aptitude -vvvvvv moo
Moo.
Re:Old hat (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Something doesn't smell right (Score:3, Funny)
In famine struck nations, what are the odds most OLPC cow powered batteries will permanently lose their charge over dinner?
Re:child labor is cheap in those countries (Score:1, Funny)
What about llamas? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Something doesn't smell right (Score:5, Funny)
But does it have cow bells? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Something doesn't smell right (Score:4, Funny)