p2pnet - rss feed: First OLPC XO, now OLPC XOXO
p2pnet news | P2P:- The One Laptop Per Child project has taken a new direction.
“My transition has been long standing and well planned, and I am continuing with OLPC - my new company will be working on its next-generation hardware. I am also using OLPC’s IP to start a company by mutual agreement.”
The quote is from Mary Lou Jepsen in a Reader’s Write to a p2pnet post when she left Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project.
Her new company is called Pixel Qi and, “We contend that new displays, with integrated touchscreens, and wireless capability are the future,” says the site, going on >>>
They are essentially motherboad-less and don’t need much an operating system at all. We are currently in a world of $10 CPUs, next year they will be less expensive. We see the future of the portable electronics as simply the display with embedded electronics eventually right in the display glass itself. This is the future laptop, the future cell phone and the future PDA.
Instead of focusing on more and more Megahertz and Gigabytes, we focus on displays that we can read, as easy as paper - indoors and out - with battery life measured in days not hours. We are talking about displays that can also display HDTV quality movies.
Enter the OLPC XO-2, aka XOXO with displays developed by Pixel Qi and looking like an e-book.
“The first XO2 machines should be ready to deliver to children in 2010,” says the BBC, continuing:
“The new version loses the green rubbery keyboard, sporting instead a single square display hinged at its centre. This allows the device to be split into two touch screens that can either mimic a laptop with keyboard or the pages of a book.”
XOXO will also be more energy efficient, half the size of the first generation device and lighter to carry, says the story, going on to quote OLPC’s Nicolas Negroponte as saying:
Meanwhile, ” The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people spend $400 to buy one of the nonprofit’s rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country,” says the Associated Press.
“Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the laptop group, announced the return of the donor program Tuesday as he disclosed plans for a second generation of the ‘XO’ computers.”
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p2pnet - Mary Lou Jepsen’s $75 laptop, January 10, 2008
BBC - Design revamp for ‘$100 laptop’, May 21, 2008
Associated Press - Laptop-for-kids project resumes donation program, May 21, 2008
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:12 am
Yawn.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I’ll give you my opinion when I’ve got more data. Historically, I’ve found little use for thin clients of any kind and I’ve distrusted wireless communications on principle.