Would You Buy A $25 Computer?

Computers have gotten pretty cheap — but $25 cheap? Although you may not want the one made by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, your kids might — it's built with the idea of them using it to learn how to program.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into a TV (or DVI monitor) and a keyboard, and can be used for "many of the things your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games," says the foundation, a registered British charity started with the goal of getting kids thinking about programming — and not just consuming content — on computers.

"This is a tiny bit of kit aimed at getting hackable technology into the hands of anyone who can afford" it, noted The Register. And parents "won't have to worry about the home PC getting wrecked by their teenagers' handmade software."

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