"Armed with a netbook, medical supplies and a bicycle, Bangladesh's InfoLadies are giving millions of poor people access to crucial information on their doorsteps that will improve their chances in life"
instead of paying huge amounts of money testing products for health and safety, why not have 14 year old kids do it as assignments for science class. some useful work can be accomplished in school yet :)
plenty of controversy surrounding this work. i too think it's important to note that the author didn't go into his experiment with any accumulated debt... that makes a huge difference
this makes a lot of sense... have you ever seen that homunculus with the gigantic hands (representing how much of the brain is associated with different parts of the body)
http://www.cs.uta.fi/~jh/homunculus.html