While looking more into this story I found several sources and even a CNN video on Yahoo about it.
You can read more here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8338&feedId=online-news_rss20
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4445060.stm
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/12/01/laptop/