Why not a $100 laptop? Sweet that it is green, too.

I think there used to be a $100 laptop in that you could word process on a used Tandy 100 that you picked up second hand.

What they really need, though, is a wind up $100 laptop with a shortwave band radio attached. That way one widget provides the information without needing the heftiness of the web radio level internet. The thing has to work on telephone lines...and dodgy ones at that. It still should be green, though.