The Antikythera Mechanism Built in Lego

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If you dont know what The Antikythera Mechanism is, go look it up on Wikipedia now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism. Then come back and revel at this replica of the functionality made entirely from Lego.

Marvell-powered OLPC XO 1.75 only draws 2 watts of power, finally charges via hand crank

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The magnificent OLPC has now got a new chip, the Marvell 1GHz Armada, which draws even less power than the old AMD or VIA ones that it had earlier. This means that it is now possible to top up the battery using the hand crank.