The One Laptop Per Child non-profit association, first announced by Nicholas Negroponte , founder and chairman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media lab at the World Economic Forum last January, claims the machine will "be able to do almost everything except store huge amounts of data".

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The Perceptive Radio, produced by the corporation's Future Media North Lab, is thought to be a world first.

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