Design Innovation did the entire mechanical design, much of the prototype fabrication, and all of the mechanical prototype assembly. The entire project was successfully completed on a deadline of about 6 weeks. Extensive use of mechanism modeling in Solidworks allowed us to go directly from the CAD model onscreen to the real assembled working unit without any initial prototype unit, saving considerable time and money.

See what Wired News has to say about the $100 laptop.

Some quotes from a USA Today article about the prototype:

"How can a laptop cost $100? Negroponte says he has figured it out. Half the cost of today's laptops is in the display screens. Negroponte's mock-up uses a far-cheaper technology that works like a miniature rear-projector TV. It's not elegant, but it seems to do the job."

"By using 1 gigabyte of solid-state memory to store software and data, "We're thinking maybe you won't need a hard disk drive," he says. And instead of expensive batteries, the $100 laptop could come with less-capable batteries and a hand crank for juicing them back up, like a radio on M*A*S*H."

"Google has already signed up as a backer, presumably dreaming of a few billion more people Googling prospective mates or finding the nearest butcher. Another backer is chipmaker AMD, whose CEO, Hector Ruiz, has been vocal about the need for inexpensive computers for poorer populations. Samsung, Motorola and News Corp. are considering joining in. Alan Kay, a legendary computer researcher now at Hewlett-Packard, is helping."

Here's a link to the entire USA Today article.