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Slightly Weird Browser-Based Game Challenges You to Survive Poverty
“Spent” is a free browser-based game that attempts to raise awareness about poverty circumstances in the USA. You can choose a job (server, warehouse worker or temp), and attempt to survive for 30 days of being super-poor. Continue reading
Even The Poorest Of Bums Can Afford This Computer
Think that $130 NPX-9000 Firefox tablet or the OLPC $75 touch screen laptop are as cheap as it gets? Think again. The brains at MIT are sure of themselves that they can create a computer for a mere $12. With a price tag like that, it’d only take a few hours of panhandling outside of a McDonalds to accumulate the money for your brand new PC. No details on the rig’s component parts except for it starting out as an... Continue reading
The “BeggingBot” Is The Worst Kind Of Hobo
Alexander Gurko went and turned an old, useless computer into a poverty-stricken jukebox. Using 3.75 and 2.5 inch floppy drive and a very old hard disk, the run-down PC chooses it’s own tunes. The Catch? “BeggingBot” plays some DJ Techno/House beats but if and only if you pay it via the CD-ROM tray. We’ve seen PCs playing music with their guts before, but begging for money? That’s an all time low for PC hardware everywhere. Originality at the cost of... Continue reading
