$9 computer raises $1M on Kickstarter | The Compost Bin | Forums

Will be interesting to see if this is real

In five days, a $9 computer has raised more than $1 million on Kickstarter.

The dirt-cheap computer is CHIP, a 2.5-inch motherboard that costs about the same as one month of Netflix (NFLX, Tech30), or two venti caffé mochas at Starbucks (SBUX).

How can a computer be so inexpensive? Next Thing Co., the Oakland company behind the project, kept the design dead simple. There's no case or unnecessary parts.

Like the popular $35 Raspberry Pi, CHIP is a computer without all the fixings. You still need to hook it up to a monitor, keyboard, mouse, power source and the Internet to do actual computing.

If you're buying all these parts, and the adapters needed to hook them up, that $9 becomes much more.

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